JTable naviagation problem

[khadaree]

Dear friends,
I have created a jtable and i want to change the enter key functionality to tab key. when i press enter the focus has to move to next column cell. the main thing is i also have custom cell editor and cell renderer of jtextfield.

if i use actionlistener or keylistener in celleditor in getTableCellEditorComponent() method, when i press enter it is firing as many rows available in the respective column. i spent two days on these. please some one help me out.

code looks like this.
setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
table = new JTable(4,4) ;
table.setCellSelectionEnabled(true);
TestRenderer trend = new TestRenderer();
TestEditor tedit = new TestEditor(this);
tcol = table.getColumnModel().getColumn(0);
tcol.setCellRenderer(trend);
tcol.setCellEditor(tedit);
tcol = table.getColumnModel().getColumn(1);
tcol.setCellRenderer(trend);
tcol.setCellEditor(tedit);
tcol = table.getColumnModel().getColumn(2);
tcol.setCellRenderer(trend);
tcol.setCellEditor(tedit);
tcol = table.getColumnModel().getColumn(3);
tcol.setCellRenderer(trend);
tcol.setCellEditor(tedit);
table.setSurrendersFocusOnKeystroke(true);
JScrollPane js = new JScrollPane();
js.setViewportView(table);
getContentPane().add(js);
setSize(400,500);
setVisible(true);


cell editor code is,

public Component getTableCellEditorComponent(JTable table,Object value,
boolean isSelected,int row,int column) {
if (value == null) {
setText("");
}
else{
setText(value.toString());
}
return this;
}

Thanks,
Khadaree

[hardwired]

See Keyboard Operation for Tables for the default keyboard operations.

Then How to Use Key Bindings for how to change things according to your requirements.

[hardwired]

Unable to post code to this thread.

[khadaree]

Hi hardwired,
I think you are not understood my problem. I want the enter key work like a tab key in Jtable. I have tried adding the actionlistener to the JTextfield in CustomCellEditor and I have tried using Action classes,InputMap() and ActionMaps also. but when i press enter these methods are firing more than one time and the result is random focus in the jtable.
Please some one help me out.

Thanks,
Khadaree

[khadaree]

solved the problem by using the following code,

table.getInputMap(JComponent.WHEN_ANCESTOR_OF_FOCU SED_COMPONENT).
put(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER, 0),
"selectNextColumnCell");


Thanks,
Khadree.

[camickr]

I want the enter key work like a tab key in Jtable

Instead of hardcoding the "selectNextColumnCell" which means you first have to know what string to use, the easier way is to just change the InputMap using the KeyStroke of the Tab key.

An example of this approach is found here:

"tips4java-wordpress-com"

Then search for "Key Bindings"

(I can't post real links yet)

[hardwired]

Here's the code example I was unable to post the other day. Fubarable suggested attatching it in a zip file.

[Fubarable]

Hardwired: What happens when you try to post code here? Perhaps the forum software has a bug that needs to be addressed?

[hardwired]

What happens when you try to post code here?
I've narrowed it down to this line:
ActionM a p actionM a p = target.getActionMap();
If I remove the spaces in the "M a p" parts of the string I get a 404 — page_not_found error when I press the "Preview Post" button.

[Fubarable]

I can reproduce the problem; thanks for bringing it to our attention. I will post a link to this in the moderator forum for the forum director to review and hope that he can find a fix.