在JTable中进行搜索时，如何从JTable中以编程方式选择特定文本？

Question

here are the screenshots of the application

Rows will be displayed in the Table according to the text which is written in the search textfield. Now i want to mark that particular text as per the shown in the second image with the yellow color I know how to select a row or a particular cell. but I don't know how to select a particular text inside the cell of any row in the table.

I am guessing you know how to search in JTable, so I am not pasting code of it here.

Answer 1

You can look over the SwingX library. It has this kind of function as you said predefined it it. You just need to add it to your table. This is where you can find it. Give it a try you will surely like it.

Answer 2

The basic premise would be to use a custom TableCellRenderer that provided the functionality that you require.

The problem is how to implement it.

I would create a TableCellRenderer based on a JTextField , remove it's border and make it transparent. This will allow you to use the text highlighting functionality provided by JTextCompoent to highlight portions of the text, as demonstrated here .

The next problem is then knowing what to highlight. There are a number of possibilities.

You could provide a method in your table model that could return the current text that should be highlighted.

I'd, personally, probably use the JTable#putClientProperty and JTable#getClientProperty methods to seed the search text.

Or, you could actually provide a simple model that directly to the renderer which had a method that returned the current search text. This might actually be more useful as you could link it to field, the method building the filter and the renderers and allow them to simply seed each other