I have a GUI with a column of JComboBoxes, where each one is unique. I really don't understand what I'm doing so the latest in an extrodinarily long sequence of roadblocks is that when a box is edited, it doesn't display the newly-selected value. If the box is selected again, the value in the cell updates to what was previously chosen, so presumably it's just a matter of the table/renderer not updating.
I suspect I probably need to register one listener per combo box somewhere, but I wouldn't know which type of listener on which class.
Here's the SSCCE illustrating as concisely as I could manage the design as it stands:
import java.awt.Component;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Random;
import javax.swing.DefaultCellEditor;
import javax.swing.JComboBox;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JTable;
import javax.swing.border.EmptyBorder;
import javax.swing.event.TableModelListener;
import javax.swing.table.TableCellEditor;
import javax.swing.table.TableCellRenderer;
import javax.swing.table.TableColumn;
import javax.swing.table.TableModel;
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class ComboBoxTableGUI extends JFrame {
public List<SampleCollection> masterList;
public static void main(String[] args) {
new ComboBoxTableGUI();
}
public ComboBoxTableGUI() {
// create a collection of 10 collections, each with 1-10 Strings
masterList = new ArrayList<SampleCollection>();
Random rnd = new Random();
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
SampleCollection sc = new SampleCollection("Option " + i + ":");
int choices = rnd.nextInt(9) + 1;
for (int j = 0; j < choices; j++) {
sc.choices.add("Choice " + j);
}
sc.selectedChoice = sc.choices.get(0);
masterList.add(sc);
}
this.setSize(500, 500);
this.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
TableModel optionTableModel = new OptionTableModel();
JTableWithCustomEditors optionsTable = new JTableWithCustomEditors(optionTableModel);
this.add(optionsTable);
TableColumn optionCol = optionsTable.getColumnModel().getColumn(1);
optionCol.setCellRenderer(new CustomComboBoxRenderer());
List<TableCellEditor> editors = new ArrayList<TableCellEditor>();
for (SampleCollection collection : masterList) {
JComboBox<String> cb = new JComboBox<String>();
for (String choice : collection.choices) {
cb.addItem(choice);
}
DefaultCellEditor editor = new DefaultCellEditor(cb);
editors.add(editor);
}
optionsTable.editors = editors;
this.setVisible(true);
}
public class SampleCollection {
public String name, selectedChoice;
public List<String> choices;
public SampleCollection(String name) {
this.name = name;
this.choices = new ArrayList<String>();
}
}
public class JTableWithCustomEditors extends JTable {
public List<TableCellEditor> editors;
public JTableWithCustomEditors(TableModel model) {
super(model); // lol
}
@Override
public TableCellEditor getCellEditor(int row, int column) {
if (column == 1)
return editors.get(row);
else
return super.getCellEditor(row, column);
}
}
class CustomComboBoxRenderer extends JComboBox<String> implements
TableCellRenderer {
public CustomComboBoxRenderer() {
setBorder(new EmptyBorder(0, 0, 0, 0));
}
public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table,
Object value, boolean isSelected, boolean hasFocus, int row,
int column) {
removeAllItems();
addItem(((SampleCollection) value).selectedChoice);
this.setSelectedIndex(0);
return this;
}
}
public class OptionTableModel implements TableModel {
private List<TableModelListener> listeners;
public OptionTableModel() {
listeners = new ArrayList<TableModelListener>();
}
@Override
public void addTableModelListener(TableModelListener l) {
listeners.add(l);
}
@Override
public Class<?> getColumnClass(int columnIndex) {
if (columnIndex == 1)
return SampleCollection.class;
else
return String.class;
}
@Override
public int getColumnCount() {
return 2;
}
@Override
public String getColumnName(int columnIndex) {
if (columnIndex == 0)
return "Name";
else
return "Selection";
}
@Override
public int getRowCount() {
if (masterList == null)
return 0;
else
return masterList.size();
}
@Override
public Object getValueAt(int rowIndex, int columnIndex) {
if (columnIndex == 0)
return masterList.get(rowIndex).name;
else
return masterList.get(rowIndex);// also tried .choices
}
@Override
public boolean isCellEditable(int rowIndex, int columnIndex) {
if (columnIndex == 1)
return true;
else
return false;
}
@Override
public void removeTableModelListener(TableModelListener l) {
listeners.remove(l);
}
@Override
public void setValueAt(Object aValue, int rowIndex, int columnIndex) {
// the values are grabbed when the user clicks an OK button, right
// now I just need to get it rendering
}
}
}