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I need to display a grid (55x25) of characters, and I need to control the
colors (foreground and background) of each cell.

Question 1: Should I use a table of Strings for this purpose?  Or would a
table of Characters be better?  If the latter is preferable, how do I
initialize my table with empty cells?  Or, since I need to control and
maintain the colors of each cell, would a table of Object (where the object
would contain one char, and two ints for the colors) be the best choice?
Again, how would I initialize such a table?

Question 2: I know how to replace the DefaultCellRenderer, and I have seen
several examples which show how to change cell colors based on cell value,
but I need to control cell colors based solely on position in the grid and I
do not see how, in the custom renderer's code, I can check the row and
column of the cell being rendered.  For instance, in my current effrot I am
using a table of strings and I am using the following renderer to center the
string (containing just one character):

  public class MyCellRenderer extends DefaultTableCellRenderer {
    public MyCellRenderer(int align) {
      this.align = align;
    };
    protected void setValue(Object value) {
      super.setValue(value);
      setHorizontalAlignment(align);
    };
    protected int align;
  };

I know that I can use setForeground and setBackground in the context of the
setValue method, but I don't see how, in the method, I can test for cell row
and column values.  If I were using a table of custom objects (as mentioned
above) then the row and column values would come in the "value" argument of
the function, so maybe that is a reason to prefer a table of custon Objects.

thanks to anyone who can help.

James