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Steve,

the snippet is fine.
My bet is a missing "import javax.swing.table.*;" ;-)
If not please post your surrounding code.

If you don't explicitly set a model JTable provides a 
DefaultTableModel for you.

Please note that the snippet assumes 5 columns, if you have only two columns you would have to use "i < 2". Or just write 
  table.getColumnModel().getColumn(0).setPreferredWidth(100);
  table.getColumnModel().getColumn(1)).setPreferredWidth(50);

Good luck,
Torsten

"Steve Swett" <swett@ncats.net> wrote:
>The following code at the "How to Use Tables" section of the on-line Java
>Tutorial doesn't work for me:
>
>TableColumn column = null;
>for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
>    column = table.getColumnModel().getColumn(i);
>    if (i == 2) {
>        column.setPreferredWidth(100); //sport column is bigger
>    } else {
>        column.setPreferredWidth(50);
>    }
>}
>
>It won't even compile because it complains about the
>"column.setPreferredWidth(100)" statement as if it was a bad method.  If you
>let Jbuilder prompt for you, after you key "column." it won't list the
>setPreferredWidth method.
>
>My table is a simple one and doesn't use a model.  Does it need to?
>
>Can someone give me a simple example of setting column widths for a 2-column
>table where the first column is twice the width of the second column?
>Thanks.
>
>
>