Hi all,

I am a kind of new and not using Java Swing often. Currently I am trying to provide a table (JTable) display with "stripping" on even or odd row to create easy reading. The following shows part of the codes on the JTable setup

public class ......
{
  .................
  // setup the AbstractTableModel interfaces
  MyTableModel tm = new MyTableModel();
  JTable tb = new Jtable();
  tb.setAutoResizeMode(JTable.AUTO_RESIZE_OFF);
  tb.setAutoCreateColumnsFromModel( false );
  tb.setModel( objTableModel );
  // set up the table Column property
  for (int k = 0; k < tm.getColumnCount(); k++ )
  {
    DefaultTableCellRenderer renderer = new DefaultTableCellRenderer();
    renderer.setHorizontalAlignment(tm.m_objColumns[k].m_intColAlignment);
    TableColumn column = new TableColumn(k,tm.m_objColumns[k].m_intColWidth,
       renderer, null);
    tb.addColumn(column);
   }
   // put it in the scroll pane
   JScrollPane objScrollPanel = new JScrollPane(tb);
   getContentPane().add( objScrollPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER );
   ....................................
   ....................................
}

I know some of the column data setup is not shown to minimize coding here.

I tried a number of ways to incorporate the "DefaultTableCellRenderer" codes to have the alternated row to display with different color for the "stripping" effect but FAILED. Please help and thanks in advance.

You need to extend the DefaultTableCellRenderer and handle setting the color.

Here is what you need to do for setting alternate strips of red.

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http://www.javareference.com/jrexamp...jsp?rootcat=10

public class ColorCellRenderer extends DefaultTableCellRenderer
{
    public Component getTableCellRendererComponent
     (JTable table, Object value, boolean isSelected,
     boolean hasFocus, int row, int column)
    {
        super.getTableCellRendererComponent
         (table, value, isSelected, hasFocus, row, column);

        if (!isSelected)
        {
            if (row % 2 == 0)
                setBackground(Color.red);
            else
                setBackground(table.getBackground());
        }

        return this;
    }
}

Rahul.


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