Re: Code Included: Freeze column

From:
Haircuts Are Important <clusardi2k@aol.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 5 Jun 2013 11:53:22 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<c4f1b073-9e07-4c7a-b1ee-c41ce897f98c@a8g2000yqp.googlegroups.com>
On Jun 4, 11:04 pm, "John B. Matthews" <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:

In article
<dac8d849-cae0-48df-855b-07a3c0115...@d10g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
 Haircuts Are Important <clus@aol.com> wrote:

The capability that I am trying to get is this. I have two
tables with the right one being a lot larger than the left
one. What I have been attempting to do is scroll the right
table vertically and have the left table scroll vertically at
the same time.


Summarizing some of my earlier suggestions on shared models and timers,
the sscce below illustrates how I would proceed. I've also used the
event dispatch thread and shown an alternate approach to scrolling.

import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTable;
import javax.swing.Timer;
import javax.swing.table.DefaultTableModel;

class ParallelTables {

    private final DefaultTableModel modelA = initModel(1);
    private JTable tableA = new JTable(modelA) {
        @Override
        public Dimension getPreferredScrollableViewportSize() {
            Dimension d = super.getPreferredScrollableViewp=

ortSize();

            return new Dimension(d.width / 2, d.height);
        }
    };
    private final DefaultTableModel modelB = initModel(5);
    private JTable tableB = new JTable(modelB);

    private DefaultTableModel initModel(int n) {
        DefaultTableModel model = new DefaultTableModel(100, n)=

;

        for (int row = 0; row < model.getRowCount(); row++) {
            model.setValueAt(row, row, 0);
        }
        return model;
    }

    private void display() {
        final JScrollPane scrollA = new JScrollPane(tableA);
        JScrollPane scrollB = new JScrollPane(tableB);
        scrollA.setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(
            JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);
        scrollA.getVerticalScrollBar().setModel(
            scrollB.getVerticalScrollBar().getModel());
        tableA.setSelectionModel(tableB.getSelectionModel());
        JPanel panel = new JPanel(
            new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT, 0, 0));
        panel.add(scrollA);
        panel.add(scrollB);
        JFrame f = new JFrame();
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        f.add(panel);
        f.pack();
        f.setLocationByPlatform(true);
        f.setVisible(true);

        int last = modelA.getRowCount() - 1;
        tableA.getSelectionModel().setSelectionInterval(last, las=

t);

        tableA.scrollRectToVisible(
            tableA.getCellRect(last, last, true));
        Timer t = new Timer(1000, new ActionListener() {
            @Override
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                modelA.addRow(new Object[]{42});
                modelB.addRow(new Object[]{42, 42, 42, 42=

, 42});

                int last = modelA.getRowCount() - 1;
                tableA.scrollRectToVisible(
                    tableA.getCellRect(last, last, tr=

ue));

            }
        });
        t.setInitialDelay(0);
        t.start();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                new ParallelTables().display();
            }
        });
    }

}


This appears to be useful, but I have a few improvements to ask about.

(1) The table automatically scrolls to one less than the number of
rows in the table. It does not scroll to the last row!

(2) When resizing the window, how do you get both tables to show more
rows. The tables show only about 25 rows and never the last row.

(3 When I, myself, do begin to add more code to this project where
should I be concerned about exceptions occurring. Will adding "try-
catch" pairs get me around all exceptions. What exceptions can I
ignore. When should I use a SwingWorker.

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