Re: Observer for Swing JPanel; custom component

From:
thufir <hawat.thufir@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.gui
Date:
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:00:38 GMT
Message-ID:
<aFSpk.13964$hx.215@pd7urf3no>
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:44:30 -0700, Mark Space wrote:

Not compiled, beware of unbalanced braces. Also, I have no idea why you
want to use PropertyChangeListeners. I think there might be a better
way of doing this.


What I came up with, which works but is, to me, black magic:

thufir@arrakis:~/beans$
thufir@arrakis:~/beans$ cat beans/src/SourceTableBean.java

import java.beans.PropertyChangeEvent;
import java.beans.PropertyChangeListener;
import java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport;

public class SourceTableBean extends javax.swing.JPanel /*implements
PropertyChangeListener*/ {

    int currentRow = 1;
    //private final PropertyChangeSupport pcs = new PropertyChangeSupport
(this);

    public SourceTableBean() {
        initComponents();
    }

    public void setCurrentRow(int newRow) {
        int oldRow = currentRow;
        currentRow = newRow;
        //pcs.firePropertyChange("row", oldRow, newRow);
        this.firePropertyChange("row", oldRow, newRow);
    }

    
    // <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Generated Code">//GEN-
BEGIN:initComponents
    private void initComponents() {

        jScrollPane1 = new javax.swing.JScrollPane();
        table = new javax.swing.JTable();

        setLayout(new java.awt.BorderLayout());

        table.setModel(new javax.swing.table.DefaultTableModel(
            new Object [][] {
                {"a0", "a1", "a2", "a3"},
                {"b0", "b1", "b2", "b3"}
            },
            new String [] {
                "Title 1", "Title 2", "Title 3", "Title 4"
            }
        ));
        table.addMouseListener(new java.awt.event.MouseAdapter() {
            public void mouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) {
                tableMouseClicked(evt);
            }
        });
        jScrollPane1.setViewportView(table);

        add(jScrollPane1, java.awt.BorderLayout.CENTER);
    }// </editor-fold>//GEN-END:initComponents
    private void tableMouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) {//GEN-
FIRST:event_tableMouseClicked
        int row = table.getSelectedRow();
        setCurrentRow(row);
    }//GEN-LAST:event_tableMouseClicked
    // Variables declaration - do not modify//GEN-BEGIN:variables
    private javax.swing.JScrollPane jScrollPane1;
    private javax.swing.JTable table;
    // End of variables declaration//GEN-END:variables
}
thufir@arrakis:~/beans$
thufir@arrakis:~/beans$ cat beans/src/Main.java

import java.beans.PropertyChangeEvent;
import java.beans.PropertyChangeListener;

public class Main extends javax.swing.JFrame /*implements
PropertyChangeListener*/ {

    public Main() {
        initComponents();
    }

    // <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Generated Code">//GEN-
BEGIN:initComponents
    private void initComponents() {

        jScrollPane1 = new javax.swing.JScrollPane();
        text = new javax.swing.JTextArea();
        table = new SourceTableBean();

        setDefaultCloseOperation
(javax.swing.WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

        text.setColumns(20);
        text.setRows(5);
        jScrollPane1.setViewportView(text);

        getContentPane().add(jScrollPane1, java.awt.BorderLayout.NORTH);

        table.addPropertyChangeListener(new
java.beans.PropertyChangeListener() {
            public void propertyChange(java.beans.PropertyChangeEvent
evt) {
                tablePropertyChange(evt);
            }
        });
        getContentPane().add(table, java.awt.BorderLayout.CENTER);

        pack();
    }// </editor-fold>//GEN-END:initComponents
    private void tablePropertyChange(java.beans.PropertyChangeEvent evt)
{//GEN-FIRST:event_tablePropertyChange
        System.out.println("\nproperty changed\t" + evt.getPropertyName()
+ "\t" + evt.getNewValue().toString());
    }//GEN-LAST:event_tablePropertyChange

    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

            public void run() {
                new Main().setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }
    // Variables declaration - do not modify//GEN-BEGIN:variables
    private javax.swing.JScrollPane jScrollPane1;
    private SourceTableBean table;
    private javax.swing.JTextArea text;
    // End of variables declaration//GEN-END:variables
}
thufir@arrakis:~/beans$

I'm not totally sure that it's reliable, there seems to be a delay in
registering user clicks -- but I'll live with that. I think that a
PropertyChangeSupport object would be useful for more complex situations,
such as if the SourceBean had multiple buttons.

Please do critique! I just need to bang out some code for now, but would
like to know if there's a better way. I didn't get a chance to look at
your solution wrt to constructors, yet...

-Thufir

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