Can I add a button to a JTable column header?

Question

I have a JTable where the first column in each row is a checkbox. The user can select and deselect individual columns. I've got this working.

Now I'd like to add to the column header a checkbox which can be used to "select all" and "deselect all". I'm puzzled in how I should go about doing this. I can't work out how to put a component of my choosing in a specific column header.

What can you suggest?

Answer 1

Ofcourse you can!

Get the tableheader by header = table.getTableHeader(). This returns a component. You can add other components like buttons etc..over this by header.add(btn).

[Edit] Before adding the button you need to set the layout as:

header.setLayout(new BorderLayout()); //if u need someother layout you can set

This is because by defualt the header's layout is null.

Answer 2

Here is an example where someone wanted to do the same thing.