JTable Sorting

**rival** · 03-20-2012, 05:06 PM

Hello, I am making a program for class, and it is a Swing GUI based program and you input a few different things and it puts it into a JTable. One value it puts in the table is a ratio that is calculated from two numbers the user inputs. I need to be able to sort the table by descending ratio values.
Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks

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Java Code:

// Display All Animals Menu Method
    public void displayall ()
    {
        contentPane = getContentPane ();
        if (infoPane != null)
            contentPane.remove (infoPane);

        infoPane = new JPanel ();
        infoPane.setLayout (new BorderLayout ());

        L1 = new JLabel ("Peel Pet House Animals:", JLabel.CENTER);
        L1.setFont (new Font ("Arial", Font.BOLD, 24));
        infoPane.add (L1, BorderLayout.NORTH);

        L2 = new JLabel ("End of Page", JLabel.CENTER);
        infoPane.add (L2, BorderLayout.SOUTH);

        String [] columnNames = {"Breed", "Category", "Acquisition Price", "Selling Price", "Profit Ratio"};
        table = new JTable (animalData, columnNames);
        JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(table);
        infoPane.add (scrollPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        contentPane.add (infoPane);
        validate ();
        
       
    }

Website won't let me attach the .zip of the java file, so here's a link to it PeelPetHouse.java

**JosAH** · 03-20-2012, 05:38 PM

Have you tried a TableRowSorter object?

kind regards,

Jos

**rival** · 03-20-2012, 06:37 PM

I am fairly new to swing, and java actually, and Im not too sure on how to input TableRowSorter into my program. I was also thinking that instead of sorting the table by the value, it will determine the highest to lowest integers and then place them in the table accordingly.

Alternatively show where I would implement the TableRowSorter in my code.

Thanks,
Rival

**JosAH** · 03-20-2012, 06:58 PM

You haven't read the API documentation for that class because it has a few simple examples how to add it to your JTable ...

kind regards,

Jos

**rival** · 03-20-2012, 07:03 PM

Might I also add Im using a course required Ready to Program 1.7.1 that is only using Java 1.4.2

**DarrylBurke** · 03-20-2012, 08:50 PM

Moved from New to Java

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**DarrylBurke** · 03-20-2012, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by rival

Might I also add Im using a course required Ready to Program 1.7.1 that is only using Java 1.4.2

Even if that course happens to be free, it's not worth the money you paid for it. You could go through the Oracle Java tutorials instead -- they are free.

Would you want to learn driving in a car you have to hand-crank to start, with a manual choke and timing advancer that you have to keep adjusting according to speed and gradient?

From Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.4.2

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