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JList containing JCheckBox and a String, with non ctrl click selection?

Hi all, Been a while since I posted on here, and now I am at a point where I find myself stuck yet again. For my assignment at uni, we have been asked to create an address book application. It is going well, and it's nearly completed, however one part of the project, which is purely my preference, eludes me. I'm not asking for help on ...

problem with Checkboxes in Jtable column

Hi all, I have a Jtable with 6 columns where i have Check boxes in the 6th Column.I am outing the text in to JTable by using the setValueAt() and getValueAt() methods.For the same Jtable I have Find,Replace and Replace All Controls to find,replace and replace all the text i the jtable.The Particular cel will be focussed for Find text.Pa...

Problems editing a JCheckBox node in a JTree

I am attempting to modify the standard Swing JTree to intermingle nodes with and without checkboxes. This is an example: When I attempt to check/uncheck one of the checkboxes (the 'User 01' node in this example), the tree loses nodes: I my code is an adaptation of this example: http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5321084&am...

Initializing JCheckBoxes when they are generated by a Table Model

In Java Swing I have created a JTable which uses a table model class which extends DefaultTableModel. As the values of one row of the table are of boolean type, these are displayed as check-boxes. As I want to add to these check-boxes 'item listeners' classes, I do need to initialize each of these check-boxes. But how do I do if these ar...

Can i use JCheckbox to show "mixed state".

In windows it is possible to show a grayed out JCheckbox, to show that the collection of data which it represents not all items have the same value. Is this even possible with a JCheckBox? How do i go about this? (Hoping there's a way to not override it) Thanks ...

Getting a JTable with a custom table model to show up in JScrollPane

Hello. I am attempting to create my own custom TableModel for my JTable (because I would like to incorporate a row of JCheckBox's into my table.) I have the JTable in a JScrollPane as well. Before I attempted to incorporate the JCheckBox and custom AbstractTableModel, the JTable would show up fine if I used the default (Object[][], Ob...

JList with transparent cell renderer on MacOS

I have the following Java Swing code that shows a JList with custom cell renderer (JCheckBox used as renderer component). The JList itself is made transparent, and also the JCheckBox is made transparent, so basically the color of the background container (yellow) should shine through. This works fine on Windows and on Linux, but on MacO...

JOptionPane to appear on selected JCheckBox

Hi all I am having some difficulties with adding a joptionpane in JcheckBox listener public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent evt) { if(evt.getStateChange() == ItemEvent.SELECTED){ ///some code JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Message", "Alert", ...

Java Swing - JCheckbox with 3 states (full selected, partially selected and deselected)

I want a JCheckbox that has 3 states as shown below: Partially Selected Unselected Full Selected Q1. Can I use the JCheckbox for the above purpose or have to go for some custom swing component? ...

Java Swing - Problem in disabling JCheckbox

I am disabling a JCheckbox and then enabling it with the help of setEnabled(...) method. But the problem is if I disable a unselected checkbox, then it becomes selected after I enable it. I want all of them to have the same state after being enabled that they had before being disabled. ...

Custom Java ListCellRenderer - Can't click JCheckBox

Made a custom ListCellRenderer: import java.awt.Component; import javax.swing.JCheckBox; import javax.swing.JLabel; import javax.swing.JList; import javax.swing.JPanel; import javax.swing.ListCellRenderer; /** * * @author Spencer */ public class TaskRenderer implements ListCellRenderer { private Task task; private JPanel p...

How to make Jtable column contain checkboxes?

Preface: I am horrible with java, and worse with java ui components. I have found several different tutorials on how to add buttons to tables, however I am struggling with adding checkboxes. I need to have a column that draws a text box ticked on default (cell renderer i think handles that), then on click of tickbox, unticks the box, re...

Java - How to force resize JCheckBox to prevent clicking the empty space ?

When i create a JCheckBox in my Swing application i leave some extra space after its label, so if the JCheckBox label is for example 100 pixels width, i make the JCheckBox 120 pixels for safety. The problem as at runtime, it's not nice that a user can click on the empty space after the JCheckBox label and it can be actually clicked, lik...

JCheckBox to display and perform functionality in JList

I am trying to get a JCheckBox to display on a line that is in the multiple select JList and still perform its functionality. Right now if I add the JCheckBox as an element it just prints its toString format. Help/ideas? ...

JCheckbox as indicator?

I need an off/on indicator for a panel in my Swing application. My gut reaction is to try to use a JCheckbox, and somehow disable the mouse input and change the checkbox state only through my program. But a radio button would look better. Is this the best way to do so (& if so, how to disable mouse input w/o making the control look dis...

How to check that a JCheckBox is checked?

How can I check if a JCheckBox is checked? ...

Notification when a checkbox in a JTable is checked

I've searched for this for quite a while and haven't found a clear example anywhere. I'm a Java newbee using NetBeans. I have a boolean value in the first column of a JTable (called "Enabled") and I have some plugin code that I need to call to see if it has the settings it needs in order to be enabled, and if not, display a message box...

JTable JCheckbox - trying to use a checkbox in one column to return a double value in another

I am trying that if a checkbox in column0 is selected a double value will be displayed in column2. Not sure where I am going wrong. Please review the code and advise.....thx.... package JavaTutes; import java.awt.; import javax.swing.; import javax.swing.table.*; import TablewCheckBoxComboBox.HeaderRenderer; public class TableWithCh...

Align a JLabel with the text of a JCheckBox

Is there a look-and-feel-independent way to align a component (e.g. a JLabel) horizontally with the text of a JCheckBox? I am trying to use values from the UIDefaults to predict the location of the text relative to the top-left corner of the JCheckBox. I have found a combination that gives the right result for the Metal, Windows, Motif...

How to prevent JPopUpMenu disappearing when checking checkboxes in it?

I want to use JCheckBoxMenuItems in a JPopupMenu. It works, but the problem is that the popup menu disappears when a checkbox item has been checked or unchecked. So if one wants to check/uncheck several items, the popup needs to be launched repeatedly, which is irritating. Curiously, if I use just plain JCheckBox items in the menu (inst...