JTable disable Checkbox in Cell

Question

Hello I have a JTable And i want to grey out all the disabled checkbox cells i tried with a custom renderer checking isEnabled() and then changing the background color but still not workin. Any suggestions? thanks!!!

Answer 1

As noted in Concepts: Editors and Renderers , "a single cell renderer is generally used to draw all of the cells that contain the same type of data." You'll need to maintain the enabled state in your table model .

Addendum: As a concrete example, the data model in this example is a simple array of Date instances. Overriding getTableCellRendererComponent() as shown below causes odd days to be disabled. In this case, being odd is a property inherent to the Date value itself, but the model could be queried for any related property at all.

@Override
public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table,
    Object value, boolean isSelected, boolean hasFocus, int row, int col) {
    Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
    calendar.setTime((Date) value);
    Component c = super.getTableCellRendererComponent(
        table, value, isSelected, hasFocus, row, col);
    c.setEnabled(calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH) % 2 == 0);
    return c;
}

Addendum: In the example above, the DateRenderer is evoked because the TableModel returns the type token Date.class , for which it has been made the default.

table.setDefaultRenderer(Date.class, new DateRenderer());

An identical appearance can be obtained by overriding prepareRenderer() as shown below, but the method is invoked for all cells, irrespective of class. As a result, prepareRenderer() is ideal for affecting entire rows, as shown in Table Row Rendering .

private final JTable table = new JTable(model) {

    @Override
    public Component prepareRenderer(TableCellRenderer renderer, int row, int col) {
        Component c = super.prepareRenderer(renderer, row, col);
        if (col == DATE_COL) {
            Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
            calendar.setTime((Date) model.getValueAt(row, col));
            c.setEnabled(calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH) % 2 == 0);
        }
        return c;
    }
};