Multiline feature in an editable jtable cell

Question

I want to have multiline feature for JTable cells. Wherein the cell automatically expands and shrinks itself when user writes or deletes text in/from cell. I have set columns width, but it doesnt automatically adjust itself according to user's input, rather text beyond the width are not seen at all, but i have a requirement to fix on the width. Can anyone help me with this, to have self adjusting and multiline feature for jtable cell . Would be very thankful. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Several steps:

• implement a custom renderer using a JTextArea as rendering component
• implement a custom editor using a JTextArea inside a JScrollPane as editing component
• add logic (aka: TableModelListener) which updates JTable's individual rowHeight based on the renderer's preferred size on receiving a change notification