Adding Jbutton to JTable

Question

Need a simple Swing code to demonstrate how to add a button in a column of a Jtable using tablecellrenderer and tablecelleditor.

Answer 1

Here a really nice example which adds a JButton to a cell in JTable:

import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.DefaultCellEditor;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JCheckBox;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTable;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.table.DefaultTableModel;
import javax.swing.table.TableCellRenderer;

public class JButtonTableExample {

    public JButtonTableExample() {
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("JButtonTable Example");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

        DefaultTableModel dm = new DefaultTableModel();
        dm.setDataVector(new Object[][]{{"button 1", "foo"},
                    {"button 2", "bar"}}, new Object[]{"Button", "String"});

        JTable table = new JTable(dm);
        table.getColumn("Button").setCellRenderer(new ButtonRenderer());
        table.getColumn("Button").setCellEditor(new ButtonEditor(new JCheckBox()));


        JScrollPane scroll = new JScrollPane(table);

        table.setPreferredScrollableViewportSize(table.getPreferredSize());//thanks mKorbel +1 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10551995/how-to-set-jscrollpane-layout-to-be-the-same-as-jtable

        table.getColumnModel().getColumn(0).setPreferredWidth(100);//so buttons will fit and not be shown butto..

        frame.add(scroll);

        frame.pack();
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                new JButtonTableExample();
            }
        });

    }
}

class ButtonRenderer extends JButton implements TableCellRenderer {

    public ButtonRenderer() {
        setOpaque(true);
    }

    @Override
    public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table, Object value,
            boolean isSelected, boolean hasFocus, int row, int column) {
        if (isSelected) {
            setForeground(table.getSelectionForeground());
            setBackground(table.getSelectionBackground());
        } else {
            setForeground(table.getForeground());
            setBackground(UIManager.getColor("Button.background"));
        }
        setText((value == null) ? "" : value.toString());
        return this;
    }
}

class ButtonEditor extends DefaultCellEditor {

    protected JButton button;
    private String label;
    private boolean isPushed;

    public ButtonEditor(JCheckBox checkBox) {
        super(checkBox);
        button = new JButton();
        button.setOpaque(true);
        button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            @Override
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                fireEditingStopped();
            }
        });
    }

    @Override
    public Component getTableCellEditorComponent(JTable table, Object value,
            boolean isSelected, int row, int column) {
        if (isSelected) {
            button.setForeground(table.getSelectionForeground());
            button.setBackground(table.getSelectionBackground());
        } else {
            button.setForeground(table.getForeground());
            button.setBackground(table.getBackground());
        }
        label = (value == null) ? "" : value.toString();
        button.setText(label);
        isPushed = true;
        return button;
    }

    @Override
    public Object getCellEditorValue() {
        if (isPushed) {
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(button, label + ": Ouch!");
        }
        isPushed = false;
        return label;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean stopCellEditing() {
        isPushed = false;
        return super.stopCellEditing();
    }
}

References:

• http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/Swing-Components/ButtonTableExample.htm