AppletTalk.com Java discussions newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  PopUp TableCellEditor?          AppletTalk.com Forum Index -> Java GUI Toolkits View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Ian Wilson Guest Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:01 pm    Post subject: PopUp TableCellEditor? First an apology, in a previous post I committed the Usenet sin of asking "How do I do X" when I really wanted to know "How do I do Y" - I thought that doing X was the way to achieve Y. I have a JTable displayed in the usual way. One of the editable columns contains short codes. This is for brevity, to conserve space. So the codes are shown in a narrow column. However I wanted the table cell editor to allow the user to pick from a list of the long names for these codes. I think this would help people who are not familiar with the short codes. For the TableCellEditor I tried using a JComboBox that shows the names instead of the codes. It became obvious that the JComboBox width is constrained by the table column width and so is normally not wide enough to show the long names. So - is there some other widget I can use in conjunction with a JTable for this? Would it be wiser to have a normal editor for the short codes but have available some method (e.g. a keyboard shortcut) that will popup some more elaborate "chooser" JDialog of my own devising? Back to top Rogan Dawes Guest Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:46 pm    Post subject: Re: PopUp TableCellEditor? Ian Wilson wrote: Quote: First an apology, in a previous post I committed the Usenet sin of asking "How do I do X" when I really wanted to know "How do I do Y" - I thought that doing X was the way to achieve Y. I have a JTable displayed in the usual way. One of the editable columns contains short codes. This is for brevity, to conserve space. So the codes are shown in a narrow column. However I wanted the table cell editor to allow the user to pick from a list of the long names for these codes. I think this would help people who are not familiar with the short codes. For the TableCellEditor I tried using a JComboBox that shows the names instead of the codes. It became obvious that the JComboBox width is constrained by the table column width and so is normally not wide enough to show the long names. So - is there some other widget I can use in conjunction with a JTable for this? Would it be wiser to have a normal editor for the short codes but have available some method (e.g. a keyboard shortcut) that will popup some more elaborate "chooser" JDialog of my own devising? Take a look for the TAME swing examples. You'll find one showing how you can have a popup editor that is wider than the column width. Rogan Back to top Ian Wilson Guest Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 2:46 pm    Post subject: Re: PopUp TableCellEditor? Rogan Dawes wrote: Quote: Ian Wilson wrote: First an apology, in a previous post I committed the Usenet sin of asking "How do I do X" when I really wanted to know "How do I do Y" - I thought that doing X was the way to achieve Y. I have a JTable displayed in the usual way. One of the editable columns contains short codes. This is for brevity, to conserve space. So the codes are shown in a narrow column. However I wanted the table cell editor to allow the user to pick from a list of the long names for these codes. I think this would help people who are not familiar with the short codes. For the TableCellEditor I tried using a JComboBox that shows the names instead of the codes. It became obvious that the JComboBox width is constrained by the table column width and so is normally not wide enough to show the long names. So - is there some other widget I can use in conjunction with a JTable for this? Would it be wiser to have a normal editor for the short codes but have available some method (e.g. a keyboard shortcut) that will popup some more elaborate "chooser" JDialog of my own devising? Take a look for the TAME swing examples. You'll find one showing how you can have a popup editor that is wider than the column width. Thanks, their SteppedComboBox does exactly what I wanted. 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