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John,

Thanks for your extensive and very instructive answer to my JTable
questions.

I think I have found a solution for most of my problems.  My table stores
objects which comprise a character, and two colors, and my cell renderer
works like this:

  public class PcCellRenderer extends DefaultTableCellRenderer {
    public PcCellRenderer(int align) {
      this.align = align;
    };
    protected void setValue(Object value) {
      PcCharacter c = (PcCharacter)value;
      super.setValue(value);
      setForeground(c.getForeground());
      setBackground(c.getBackground());
      setHorizontalAlignment(align);
    };
    protected int align;
  };

And this works fine.

However, I still have two problems.  My table is fairly big, 55x25).  I want
to initialize all the cells to hold the same (blank) character, but I
certainly don't want to write out those vectors.  I tried using a for loop
in the context to a custom tablemodel declaration, like this:

  TableModel tm = new AbstractTableModel() {
    PcCharacter[][] data =
{{blankPcCharacter,blankPcCharacter,blankPcCharacter},

{blankPcCharacter,blankPcCharacter,blankPcCharacter}};
    String[] headers = {"","",""};
    public int getRowCount() { return data.length; };
    public int getColumnCount() { return headers.length; };
    public Object getValueAt(int r, int c) { return data[r][c]; };
    public void setValueAt(Object value, int r, int c) {
      data[r][c] = (PcCharacter)value;
      repaint();
    };
    public String getColumnName(int c) { return ""; };
    int i,ii;
    for (i = 0;i < 2;i++){
      for(ii=0;ii<3;ii++){
        data[i][ii] = blankPcCharacter
      }
    }
  };

but the compiler doesn't like thiis.  How do I use for loops to initialize
my table:

Also, you will note a call to repaint() in my tablemodel declaration
(above).  With out this setValueAt does not paint the cell, my question is
about whether this call to repaint() is the best, most efficient way to
handle this.

thanks again for all your help,

James