How to add a JComboBox to a JTable cell?

Question

I am trying to add JComponents to JTable Cells. Do I Implement CellRenderer or CellEditor?

Answer 1

What you need is a custom editor which will return the JComboBox (or whatever component you want to use). You should check the Sun tutorial for JTable, it contains an example on how to use a JComboBox as an editor. If you want to use JComboBox as a renderer as well, the tutorial applies to that too.

Answer 2

You could also do it with the DefaultCellEditor by passing in an instance of a JComboBox (or JCheckBox or JTextField) to the constructor.