Thread: Colouring Rows of a table

Hi all.
I have an events tables and Im currently struggling to colour the rows in which the event starts and stops.
I have a customer renderer but dont what vaules/tests i need to set the colour of the rows.
I would like it to colour all rows between the start and the stop time. My SSCCE is below

package testcode;
 
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Component;
 
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTable;
import javax.swing.table.DefaultTableCellRenderer;
import javax.swing.table.TableCellRenderer;
 
public class TableTest {
 
  public static void main(String args[]) {
      /*  Populated the table with times and events */
    Object rows[][] = { { "12:00", "" }, { "13:00", "StartTime" }, { "14:00", "" }, { "15:00", "" }, { "16:00", "" },
        { "17:00", "" }, { "18:00", "" }, { "19:00", "StopTime" }, { "20:00", "" }, { "21:00", "" }, { "22:00", "" } };
    Object headers[] = { "Time", "Event" };
    JFrame frame = new JFrame("Renderer");
    JTable table = new JTable(rows, headers);
    TableCellRenderer renderer = new MyRenderer();
    table.setDefaultRenderer(Object.class, renderer);
    JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(table);
    frame.getContentPane().add(scrollPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    frame.setSize(300, 150);
    frame.setVisible(true);
  }
}
 
class MyRenderer implements TableCellRenderer {
 
  public static final DefaultTableCellRenderer DEFAULT_RENDERER = new DefaultTableCellRenderer();
 
  public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table, Object value,
      boolean isSelected, boolean hasFocus, int row, int column) {
    Component renderer = DEFAULT_RENDERER.getTableCellRendererComponent(table, value, isSelected, hasFocus, row, column);
    ((JLabel) renderer).setOpaque(true);
    Color background = null;
 
    /**  Colors row 1 blue
    if (row == 1){
        background = Color.BLUE;
    }else{
        background = Color.WHITE;
    }*/
 
    // Here i need to get the start time and stop time and fill the rows with a different colour.
 
    renderer.setBackground(background);
    return renderer;
  }
}

Any ideas would be helpful.
Thanks

The parameter value in the getTableCellRendererComponent() method gives you the value in the cell. Check that against the start time, setting the color appropriately. You might also have to call setOpaque(true) on the JLabel returned from the DefaultTableCellRenderer

Thanks. i now have any row which is not empty coloured using the value variable

   if (!(value.equals(""))  && (column == 1)){
        background = Color.BLUE;
    }

how can i colour the rows in between? i tried setting a boolean but then got stuck in an infinate loop as i dont know when to set it to false.

but why don't you just extend that instead and call super to get the default renderer?

Im confused on how to do this. where do i call super from and how do i set the values or the rows to colour.

Thanks for your help
Kurt

Firstly, Thanks for your help

There are a ton of ways to do it. The first thing that pops out to me is to simply do a test- if StartTime is in a cell above the current cell, and StopTime is in the cell below the current cell, then set the background to whatever you want.

Because the getTableCellRendererComponent method is in the MyRenderer class, and the Start time and stop time are in the main class, Im confused on how i can do a check against the start time and stop time (these time can be different and there may also be more than one event per table).

Another way is to have a value in that cell, something like "BetweenTime". Check against that, and if the value of the cell being rendered is "BetweenTime", then set the text to nothing and set the background.

I tried this way and it works fine but i then cannot set the cell value from "BetweenTime" To ""?

and i tried calling the method via super (like you did) but i got errors. (cannot find symbol)
Also is there an advantage of using super instead of setting a default_renderer like i did?

Thanks for your time
Kurt