can't show JTable

Question

Hi,

I'm having small problem (I guess) of showing the JTable panel. I have class contains Object array with:

public class Item 

{

  String itemDesc = "";
  float price = 0;
  private itemType enmItemType;
  Object[][] data = {{itemDesc, enmItemType , new Float(price)}};
  .
  .
  .
  .

}

here is the Table class contains the JTable:

class Table extends JFrame
{
  // Instance attributes used in this example
  private   JPanel      topPanel;
  private   JTable      table;
  private   JScrollPane scrollPane;
  private JButton       update_Button;

  // Constructor of main frame
  public Table()
  {
    // Set the frame characteristics
    setTitle("Add new item" );
    setSize(300, 200);
    setBackground( Color.gray );

    // Create a panel to hold all other components
    topPanel = new JPanel();
    topPanel.setLayout( new BorderLayout() );
    getContentPane().add( topPanel );

    // Create columns names
    String columnNames[] = {"Item Description", "Item Type", "Item Price"};

    // Create some data
    Object dataValues[][] ;
    Item itm = new Item();
    dataValues = itm.data;

    // Create a new table instance
    table = new JTable( dataValues, columnNames );

    ////////////////////////////

    JComboBox itemTypeCombobox = new JComboBox();
        TableColumn column1 = table.getColumnModel().getColumn(1);
    column1.setCellEditor(new DefaultCellEditor(itemTypeCombobox));

    ////////////////////////////    

    // Add the table to a scrolling pane
    scrollPane = new JScrollPane( table );
    topPanel.add( scrollPane, BorderLayout.CENTER );
    JButton button = new JButton("Add Item");
    topPanel.add( button, BorderLayout.SOUTH ); 

  }

}

The main program is:

public static void main(String[] args)
{ 
    Menu m = new Menu();
    m.chooseMenu();

    // Create an instance of the test application
    Table mainFrame = new Table();
    mainFrame.setVisible( true );   
}

I did not receive any error/warning, but still, I don't see any table. Can someone direct me what causing the problem?

Thanks.

Answer 1

for example if I enter new item, then I need to enter parameters of Description (String), type (Enum) and price (Float)...

To add a new row of data you need to use the addRow(...) method of the DefaultTableModel.

All updates should be done to the model, not the Array used to create the model.