Re: Colouring rows in JTable

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From: Brian Duff
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 00:00

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Peter Hawkins <Peter.Hawkins@hos.horizon.ie> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Is there an easy way to colour the rows in a JTable. What I would like
> is say, the odd rows to be background white while the even rows are
> background blue, to aid the user in examining a large table.


Have a look at the API for javax.swing.table.DefaultTableCellRenderer. You
probably want to subclass DefaultTableCellRenderer and set the background
color depending on the row number. Then just use JTable.setCellRenderer(...)
to use your customized renderer.

Brian

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