Change the background color of a row in a JTable

user picture user · Oct 6, 2010 · Viewed 109.1k times · Source

I have a JTable with 3 columns. I've set the TableCellRenderer for all the 3 columns like this (maybe not very effective?).

 for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
     myJTable.getColumnModel().getColumn(i).setCellRenderer(renderer);
 }

The getTableCellRendererComponent() returns a Component with a random background color for each row.
How could I change the background to an other random color while the program is running?

Answer

Olivier Faucheux picture Olivier Faucheux · Jul 19, 2012

Resumee of Richard Fearn's answer , to make each second line gray:

jTable.setDefaultRenderer(Object.class, new DefaultTableCellRenderer()
{
    @Override
    public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table, Object value, boolean isSelected, boolean hasFocus, int row, int column)
    {
        final Component c = super.getTableCellRendererComponent(table, value, isSelected, hasFocus, row, column);
        c.setBackground(row % 2 == 0 ? Color.LIGHT_GRAY : Color.WHITE);
        return c;
    }
});