JTextField in JTree - make it editable

Question

does anybody have a sample code for a tree with check boxes and text fields? Because now I have a code for check box (only) based tree. I tried to implement also text fields in the tree (with Jlabels ). But I get stucked and I am really confused. I can't get any further and I hoped that you can help me.

The issue is. I cant modify the text of JTextFields. The modification doesnt get saved. And I do not know how to add a JLabel in the same line of the JTextField

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|- Node 1
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    | - [100] Iterations
|- Node 2
    | - [x] Activate simulation
    | - [2000] Iterations

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package view;
import javax.swing.BoxLayout;
import javax.swing.JDesktopPane;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JInternalFrame;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import org.jdesktop.swingx.JXTreeTable;
import org.jdesktop.swingx.treetable.AbstractTreeTableModel;
import org.jdesktop.swingx.treetable.DefaultMutableTreeTableNode;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.event.ItemEvent;
import java.awt.event.ItemListener;
import javax.swing.event.DocumentListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.EventObject;
import java.util.Vector;

import javax.swing.AbstractCellEditor;
import javax.swing.JCheckBox;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTree;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.event.ChangeEvent;
import javax.swing.event.DocumentEvent;
import javax.swing.tree.DefaultMutableTreeNode;
import javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeCellRenderer;
import javax.swing.tree.TreeCellEditor;
import javax.swing.tree.TreeCellRenderer;
import javax.swing.tree.TreePath;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;

public class test {

  private Document dom;

  private void parseXmlFile(String xmlpath){
        //get the factory
        DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();

        try {

            //Using factory get an instance of document builder
            DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();

            //parse using builder to get DOM representation of the XML file
            dom = db.parse(xmlpath);


        }catch(ParserConfigurationException pce) {
            pce.printStackTrace();
        }catch(SAXException se) {
            se.printStackTrace();
        }catch(IOException ioe) {
            ioe.printStackTrace();
        }
  } 

  public static void main(String args[]) {
    JFrame frame = new JFrame("CheckBox Tree");

    CheckBoxNode accessibilityOptions[] = {
        new CheckBoxNode(
            "Move system caret with focus/selection changes", false),
        new CheckBoxNode("Always expand alt text for images", true) };
    CheckBoxNode browsingOptions[] = {
        new CheckBoxNode("Notify when downloads complete", true),
        new CheckBoxNode("Disable script debugging", true),
        new CheckBoxNode("Use AutoComplete", true),
        new CheckBoxNode("Browse in a new process", false) 
        };
    TextBoxNode loloptions[] =
        {
                new TextBoxNode("oha", "lol"),
                new TextBoxNode("oha1", "lol"),
                new TextBoxNode("oha2", "lol")
        };

    Vector accessVector = new NamedVector("Accessibility",
        accessibilityOptions);
    Vector browseVector = new NamedVector("Browsing", browsingOptions);
    Vector browse1Vector = new NamedVector("Browsing", browsingOptions);
    Vector browse2Vector = new NamedVector("textboxnodes", loloptions);
    Object lolNodes[] = {browse1Vector, browseVector, browse2Vector};
    Vector lolvec = new NamedVector("Overking", lolNodes);
    Object rootNodes[] = { accessVector, lolvec};
    lolvec.add(new CheckBoxNode("oh",false));
    Vector rootVector = new NamedVector("Root", rootNodes);
    JTree tree = new JTree(rootVector);


    CheckBoxNodeRenderer renderer = new CheckBoxNodeRenderer();
    tree.setCellRenderer(renderer);

    tree.setCellEditor(new CheckBoxNodeEditor(tree));
    tree.setEditable(true);
    for (int i = 0; i < tree.getRowCount(); i++) {
        tree.expandRow(i);
    }

    JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(tree);
    frame.getContentPane().add(scrollPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    frame.setSize(300, 150);
    frame.setVisible(true);
  }
}

class CheckBoxNodeRenderer implements TreeCellRenderer {
      private JCheckBox leafRenderer = new JCheckBox();
      private JTextField leafRendererAlt = new JTextField();
      private DefaultTreeCellRenderer nonLeafRenderer = new DefaultTreeCellRenderer();

      Color selectionBorderColor, selectionForeground, selectionBackground,
          textForeground, textBackground;

      protected Object getLeafRenderer() {
        if(leafRenderer.getText().length() > 0)
            return leafRenderer;
        else
            return leafRendererAlt;
      }

      public CheckBoxNodeRenderer() {
        Font fontValue;
        fontValue = UIManager.getFont("Tree.font");
        if (fontValue != null) {
          leafRenderer.setFont(fontValue);
        }
        Boolean booleanValue = (Boolean) UIManager
            .get("Tree.drawsFocusBorderAroundIcon");
        leafRenderer.setFocusPainted((booleanValue != null)
            && (booleanValue.booleanValue()));

        selectionBorderColor = UIManager.getColor("Tree.selectionBorderColor");
        selectionForeground = UIManager.getColor("Tree.selectionForeground");
        selectionBackground = UIManager.getColor("Tree.selectionBackground");
        textForeground = UIManager.getColor("Tree.textForeground");
        textBackground = UIManager.getColor("Tree.textBackground");
      }

      public Component getTreeCellRendererComponent(JTree tree, Object value,
          boolean selected, boolean expanded, boolean leaf, int row,
          boolean hasFocus) {

        Component returnValue;
        if (leaf) {

          String stringValue = tree.convertValueToText(value, selected,
              expanded, leaf, row, false);

          if(stringValue.contains("TextBoxNode"))
          {
              leafRenderer = new JCheckBox();
              leafRendererAlt.setText(stringValue);
              //leafRendererAlt.setValue(value);

              leafRendererAlt.setEnabled(tree.isEnabled());

              if (selected) {
                  leafRendererAlt.setForeground(selectionForeground);
                  leafRendererAlt.setBackground(selectionBackground);
              } else {
                  leafRendererAlt.setForeground(textForeground);
                  leafRendererAlt.setBackground(textBackground);
              }

              if ((value != null) && (value instanceof DefaultMutableTreeNode)) {
                Object userObject = ((DefaultMutableTreeNode) value)
                    .getUserObject();
                if (userObject instanceof TextBoxNode) {
                  TextBoxNode node = (TextBoxNode) userObject;
                  leafRendererAlt.setText(node.getText());
                }
              }
              returnValue = leafRendererAlt;
          }
          else
          {
              leafRendererAlt = new JTextField();
              leafRenderer.setText(stringValue);
              leafRenderer.setSelected(false);

              leafRenderer.setEnabled(tree.isEnabled());

              if (selected) {
                leafRenderer.setForeground(selectionForeground);
                leafRenderer.setBackground(selectionBackground);
              } else {
                leafRenderer.setForeground(textForeground);
                leafRenderer.setBackground(textBackground);
              }

              if ((value != null) && (value instanceof DefaultMutableTreeNode)) {
                Object userObject = ((DefaultMutableTreeNode) value)
                    .getUserObject();
                if (userObject instanceof CheckBoxNode) {
                  CheckBoxNode node = (CheckBoxNode) userObject;
                  leafRenderer.setText(node.getText());
                  leafRenderer.setSelected(node.isSelected());
                }
              }
              returnValue = leafRenderer;
          }
        } else {
          returnValue = nonLeafRenderer.getTreeCellRendererComponent(tree,
              value, selected, expanded, leaf, row, hasFocus);
        }
        return returnValue;
      }
}

class CheckBoxNodeEditor extends AbstractCellEditor implements TreeCellEditor {

      CheckBoxNodeRenderer renderer = new CheckBoxNodeRenderer();

      ChangeEvent changeEvent = null;

      JTree tree;

      public CheckBoxNodeEditor(JTree tree) {
        this.tree = tree;
      }

      public Object getCellEditorValue() {
        JCheckBox checkbox;
        JTextField textfield;
        CheckBoxNode checkBoxNode;
        TextBoxNode txtBoxNode;
        if(renderer.getLeafRenderer() instanceof JCheckBox)
        {
            checkbox = (JCheckBox) renderer.getLeafRenderer();
            checkBoxNode = new CheckBoxNode(checkbox.getText(),
            checkbox.isSelected());
            return checkBoxNode;
        }
        else
        {
            textfield = (JTextField) renderer.getLeafRenderer();
            String txt = textfield.getText();
            txtBoxNode = new TextBoxNode(txt, txt);
            return txtBoxNode;  
        }


      }

      public boolean isCellEditable(EventObject event) {
        boolean returnValue = false;
        if (event instanceof MouseEvent) {
          MouseEvent mouseEvent = (MouseEvent) event;
          TreePath path = tree.getPathForLocation(mouseEvent.getX(),
              mouseEvent.getY());
          if (path != null) {
            Object node = path.getLastPathComponent();
            if ((node != null) && (node instanceof DefaultMutableTreeNode)) {
              DefaultMutableTreeNode treeNode = (DefaultMutableTreeNode) node;
              Object userObject = treeNode.getUserObject();
              if((userObject instanceof TextBoxNode) || (userObject instanceof CheckBoxNode))
                  returnValue = treeNode.isLeaf();
            }
          }
        }
        return returnValue;
      }

      public Component getTreeCellEditorComponent(JTree tree, Object value,
          boolean selected, boolean expanded, boolean leaf, int row) {

        Component editor = renderer.getTreeCellRendererComponent(tree, value,
            true, expanded, leaf, row, true);

        // editor always selected / focused
        ItemListener itemListener = new ItemListener() {
          public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent itemEvent) {
            if (stopCellEditing()) {
              fireEditingStopped();
            }
          }
        };

        DocumentListener doclistener = new DocumentListener(){
              public void changedUpdate(DocumentEvent e) {
                    System.out.print(e);
                  }

            @Override
            public void insertUpdate(DocumentEvent arg0) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                javax.swing.text.Document test = arg0.getDocument();
                System.out.print(arg0);
                fireEditingStopped();


            }

            @Override
            public void removeUpdate(DocumentEvent arg0) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                System.out.print(arg0);
            }
        };
        if (editor instanceof JCheckBox) {
          ((JCheckBox) editor).addItemListener(itemListener);
        }
        else if (editor instanceof JTextField) 
        {
            ((JTextField) editor).getDocument().addDocumentListener(doclistener);
        }
        return editor;
      }
}

class CheckBoxNode {
      String text;

      boolean selected;

      public CheckBoxNode(String text, boolean selected) {
        this.text = text;
        this.selected = selected;
      }

      public boolean isSelected() {
        return selected;
      }

      public void setSelected(boolean newValue) {
        selected = newValue;
      }

      public String getText() {
        return text;
      }

      public void setText(String newValue) {
        text = newValue;
      }

      public String toString() {
        return getClass().getName() + "[" + text + "/" + selected + "]";
      }
}
class TextBoxNode{
      String text;

      String value;

      public TextBoxNode(String text, String value) {
        this.text = text;
        this.value = value;
      }

      public String getValue() {
        return value;
      }

      public void setValue(String newvalue) {
          value = newvalue;
      }

      public String getText() {
        return text;
      }

      public void setText(String newValue) {
        text = newValue;
      }

      public String toString() {
        return getClass().getName() + "[" + text + "/" + value + "]";
      }
}

class NamedVector extends Vector {
      String name;

      public NamedVector(String name) {
        this.name = name;
      }

      public NamedVector(String name, Object elements[]) {
        this.name = name;
        for (int i = 0, n = elements.length; i < n; i++) {
          add(elements[i]);
        }
      }

      public String toString() {
        return "[" + name + "]";
      }
}

The issue is. I cant modify the text of JTextFields . And I do not know how to add a JLabel in the same line of the JTextField

I hope you can help me.

Answer 1

In principle you should cleanly separate the renderer and the editor. In your case, they are closely tied together (in fact, the editor returns the JTextField instance of the renderer)... A renderer is not supposed to be editable. I doubt in your case that the editor is ever called.

I see two possible solutions:

• Heavily refactor your code, to separate rendering and editing (eg rendering with JLabel and editing with JTextField -- or simply using a DefaultTreeCellEditor -- example here ). Let the tree determine when the edit starts, when to call the editor, when to cancel an edit, etc...
• Or you can by-pass the standard editing mechanism (as you are already doing more or less): Completely remove the TreeCellEditor from your code and let the renderer do all the work. Add appropriate listeners to your JTextField and JCheckBox inside the renderer, and update the model when changes are made. (Note that one drawback is that you'll have a primitive editing mechanism: eg the edit is not cancelled if user presses ESC ).

As to:

And I do not know how to add a JLabel in the same line of the JTextField

Just let your renderer return a JPanel to which you add the JTextField and the JLabel .