Re: JTable on key press jump to item alphabetically

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From: John McGrath [TeamB]
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 03:12

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On 4/13/2004 at 5:09:07 PM, Sam Seaborn wrote:

> I have a JTable that lists a bunch of users.  Is there a way to have the
> JTable selection jump to an item alphabetically based on a key press?
> 
> That is, if I open the Windows file explorer to c:/windows and press
> 'G', it selects "Gone Fishing.bmp" because it's the first file that
> starts with G.
> 
> Is there a simple way to get JTable to do this?  Any help is greatly
> appreciated,

If you are asking whether there is a simple property you can set to make
it behave this way, the answer is "no", but it is not hard to implement.
Add a KeyListener to the JTable and set the selection in the keyTyped()
method.

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Regards,

John McGrath [TeamB]

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