Re: customizing JTable

From:
Mark Space <markspace@sbc.global.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:23:34 -0700
Message-ID:
<9wjck.9352$LG4.1772@nlpi065.nbdc.sbc.com>
thufir wrote:

public class CarTableModel extends DefaultTableModel {

    private static final TableModel INSTANCE = new CarTableModel();

public class CarTableData {

    private static final CarTableData INSTANCE = new CarTableData();


Personally, these static variables weird me out. What if you need to
display two tables? Say the user is comparing two lists of cars, one
list from cars in rows 100-110 of the database (the cheap cars) and the
other table shows rows 340-350? How do you do that when there can only
be one table ever?

I think you should just get rid of the "INSTANCE" field in both cases,
and just call "new" on the class like a normal class. You should be
able to just make a table model and drop it into the JFrame's JTable,
kinda like this:

package jtabletest;

import java.math.BigDecimal;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTable;

public class Main {

     public static void main(String[] args) {

         Object[] headers = {"Car ID", "Name", "Vendor", "Type", "Year",
             "Price", "Used"
         };
         Object[][] tableData = {{"1001", "Super-Zoom", "Nissan", "Sedan",
                 new Integer(2007), new BigDecimal("13000.00"),
                 new Boolean(true)
             },
             {"201", "Tough TX", "Ford", "Pick-up", new Integer(2008),
                 new BigDecimal("22000.99"), new Boolean(false)
             },
             {"555", "Prius", "Toyota", "Hybrid", new Integer(2008),
             new BigDecimal("25000.00"), new Boolean(false) }
         };

         JTable table = new JTable( tableData, headers );
         JFrame app = new JFrame( "Sampe JTable App" );
         app.add( new JScrollPane( table ) );
         app.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
         app.pack();
         app.setLocationRelativeTo( null );
         app.setVisible( true );
     }
}

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