How to add button in a row of JTable in Swing java

Question

I have made one swing GUI which have JTable with some rows and Columns.How should I add a button to row in a JTable ?

Answer 1

You don't add it to a row - you add it to the cell. This tutorial describes what you need.

Answer 2

You can add Component as a table cell.

First of all, you should implement a class that has JButton as its parent class and two interfaces: TableCellRenderer and TableCellEditor.

The reason that it should implement TableCellEditor is for receiving button's ActionEvent.

    public class TableButton extends JButton implements TableCellRenderer, TableCellEditor {
      private int selectedRow;
      private int selectedColumn;
      Vector<TableButtonListener> listener;
    
      public TableButton(String text) {
        super(text); 
        listener = new Vector<TableButtonListener>();
        addActionListener(new ActionListener() { 
          public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent e ) { 
            for(TableButtonListener l : listener) { 
              l.tableButtonClicked(selectedRow, selectedColumn);
            }
          }
        });
      }
     
      public void addTableButtonListener( TableButtonListener l ) {
        listener.add(l);
      }
    
      public void removeTableButtonListener( TableButtonListener l ) { 
        listener.remove(l);
      }
    
      @Override 
      public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table,
        Object value, boolean isSelected, boolean hasFocus, int row, int col) {
        return this;
      }
    
      @Override
      public Component getTableCellEditorComponent(JTable table,
          Object value, boolean isSelected, int row, int col) {
        selectedRow = row;
        selectedColumn = col;
        return this;
      } 
    
      @Override
      public void addCellEditorListener(CellEditorListener arg0) {      
      } 
    
      @Override
      public void cancelCellEditing() {
      } 
    
      @Override
      public Object getCellEditorValue() {
        return "";
      }
    
      @Override
      public boolean isCellEditable(EventObject arg0) {
        return true;
      }
    
      @Override
      public void removeCellEditorListener(CellEditorListener arg0) {
      }
    
      @Override
      public boolean shouldSelectCell(EventObject arg0) {
        return true;
      }
    
      @Override
      public boolean stopCellEditing() {
        return true;
      }
    }

Then I added an EventListener named TableButtonListener` for handling button event as follows.

    public interface TableButtonListener extends EventListener {
      public void tableButtonClicked( int row, int col );
    }

And use above Renderer/Editor.

    TableButton buttonEditor = new TableButton("Button");
    buttonEditor.addButtonListener(new TableButtonListener() {
      @Override
      public void tableButtonClicked(int row, int col) {
        // do something 
      }     
    }); 
     
    TableColumn col = new TableColumn(1, 80);
    col.setCellRenderer(buttonEditor);
    col.setCellEditor(buttonEditor);

    cols.addColumn(colPattern);

If you want to display different buttons label for each row, you should insert a code block into the getTableCellRendererComponent and getTableCellEditorComponent methods to modify button's label.

Answer 3

Check out Table Button Column.

It demonstrates how to use a JButton as a custom renderer and editor that you can click an easily invoke an Action.