I made an SSCCE. There is a button you can click to add a new node, with a checkbox but it's not clickable. I'm not creating a jcheckbox anywhere, so don't really understand where I should put an extra listener, and don't understand why it doesn't use getTreeCellEditorComponent() in the editor?
I also tried a slightly different approach where I use model.insertNodeInto(), but still I can't click the checkbox. I believe that I should be able to create a checkboxNode instead of a DefaultMutableTreeNode, but the JTree model doesn't want that, therefore trying to cast it to a DefaultMutableTreeNode.. Anyways, thanks for your help so far!
UPDATE:Because the new node is not of type CheckBoxNode. Therefore listeners doesn't work on the nodes. So now I'm looking for solutions to create a CheckBoxNode[], add it to a Vector, and then add that as a node (it that is possible!). That's how the author made the JTree, so I guess something like that could be the answer!
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ItemEvent;
import java.awt.event.ItemListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.util.EventObject;
import java.util.Vector;
import javax.swing.AbstractCellEditor;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JCheckBox;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTree;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.event.ChangeEvent;
import javax.swing.tree.DefaultMutableTreeNode;
import javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeCellRenderer;
import javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeModel;
import javax.swing.tree.TreeCellEditor;
import javax.swing.tree.TreeCellRenderer;
import javax.swing.tree.TreePath;
public class CheckBoxNodeTreeSample {
private static JTree tree;
public static void main(String args[]) {
JFrame frame = new JFrame("CheckBox Tree");
CheckBoxNode accessibilityOptions[] = {
new CheckBoxNode(
"Move system caret with focus/selection changes", false),
new CheckBoxNode("Always expand alt text for images", true) };
CheckBoxNode browsingOptions[] = {
new CheckBoxNode("Notify when downloads complete", true),
new CheckBoxNode("Disable script debugging", true),
new CheckBoxNode("Use AutoComplete", true),
new CheckBoxNode("Browse in a new process", false) };
Vector accessVector = new NamedVector("Accessibility",
accessibilityOptions);
Vector browseVector = new NamedVector("Browsing", browsingOptions);
Object rootNodes[] = { accessVector, browseVector };
Vector rootVector = new NamedVector("Root", rootNodes);
tree = new JTree(rootVector);
CheckBoxNodeRenderer renderer = new CheckBoxNodeRenderer();
tree.setCellRenderer(renderer);
tree.setCellEditor(new CheckBoxNodeEditor(tree));
tree.setEditable(true);
JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(tree);
frame.getContentPane().add(scrollPane, BorderLayout.NORTH);
JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel();
JButton button = new JButton("new node");
buttonPanel.add(button);
frame.getContentPane().add(buttonPanel, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
DefaultTreeModel model = (DefaultTreeModel) tree.getModel();
DefaultMutableTreeNode root = (DefaultMutableTreeNode) model.getRoot();
DefaultMutableTreeNode newNode = new DefaultMutableTreeNode("New node");
root.add(newNode);
model.reload();
}
});
frame.setSize(300, 450);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}
class CheckBoxNodeRenderer implements TreeCellRenderer {
private JCheckBox leafRenderer = new JCheckBox();
private DefaultTreeCellRenderer nonLeafRenderer = new DefaultTreeCellRenderer();
Color selectionBorderColor, selectionForeground, selectionBackground,
textForeground, textBackground;
protected JCheckBox getLeafRenderer() {
return leafRenderer;
}
public CheckBoxNodeRenderer() {
Font fontValue;
fontValue = UIManager.getFont("Tree.font");
if (fontValue != null) {
leafRenderer.setFont(fontValue);
}
Boolean booleanValue = (Boolean) UIManager
.get("Tree.drawsFocusBorderAroundIcon");
leafRenderer.setFocusPainted((booleanValue != null)
&& (booleanValue.booleanValue()));
selectionBorderColor = UIManager.getColor("Tree.selectionBorderColor");
selectionForeground = UIManager.getColor("Tree.selectionForeground");
selectionBackground = UIManager.getColor("Tree.selectionBackground");
textForeground = UIManager.getColor("Tree.textForeground");
textBackground = UIManager.getColor("Tree.textBackground");
}
public Component getTreeCellRendererComponent(JTree tree, Object value,
boolean selected, boolean expanded, boolean leaf, int row,
boolean hasFocus) {
Component returnValue;
if (leaf) {
String stringValue = tree.convertValueToText(value, selected,
expanded, leaf, row, false);
leafRenderer.setText(stringValue);
leafRenderer.setSelected(false);
leafRenderer.setEnabled(tree.isEnabled());
if (selected) {
leafRenderer.setForeground(selectionForeground);
leafRenderer.setBackground(selectionBackground);
} else {
leafRenderer.setForeground(textForeground);
leafRenderer.setBackground(textBackground);
}
if ((value != null) && (value instanceof DefaultMutableTreeNode)) {
Object userObject = ((DefaultMutableTreeNode) value)
.getUserObject();
if (userObject instanceof CheckBoxNode) {
CheckBoxNode node = (CheckBoxNode) userObject;
leafRenderer.setText(node.getText());
leafRenderer.setSelected(node.isSelected());
}
}
returnValue = leafRenderer;
} else {
returnValue = nonLeafRenderer.getTreeCellRendererComponent(tree,
value, selected, expanded, leaf, row, hasFocus);
}
return returnValue;
}
}
class CheckBoxNodeEditor extends AbstractCellEditor implements TreeCellEditor {
CheckBoxNodeRenderer renderer = new CheckBoxNodeRenderer();
ChangeEvent changeEvent = null;
JTree tree;
public CheckBoxNodeEditor(JTree tree) {
this.tree = tree;
}
public Object getCellEditorValue() {
JCheckBox checkbox = renderer.getLeafRenderer();
CheckBoxNode checkBoxNode = new CheckBoxNode(checkbox.getText(),
checkbox.isSelected());
return checkBoxNode;
}
public boolean isCellEditable(EventObject event) {
boolean returnValue = false;
if (event instanceof MouseEvent) {
MouseEvent mouseEvent = (MouseEvent) event;
TreePath path = tree.getPathForLocation(mouseEvent.getX(),
mouseEvent.getY());
if (path != null) {
Object node = path.getLastPathComponent();
if ((node != null) && (node instanceof DefaultMutableTreeNode)) {
DefaultMutableTreeNode treeNode = (DefaultMutableTreeNode) node;
Object userObject = treeNode.getUserObject();
returnValue = ((treeNode.isLeaf()) && (userObject instanceof CheckBoxNode));
}
}
}
return returnValue;
}
public Component getTreeCellEditorComponent(JTree tree, Object value,
boolean selected, boolean expanded, boolean leaf, int row) {
Component editor = renderer.getTreeCellRendererComponent(tree, value,
true, expanded, leaf, row, true);
// editor always selected / focused
ItemListener itemListener = new ItemListener() {
public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent itemEvent) {
if (stopCellEditing()) {
fireEditingStopped();
}
}
};
if (editor instanceof JCheckBox) {
((JCheckBox) editor).addItemListener(itemListener);
}
return editor;
}
}
class CheckBoxNode {
String text;
boolean selected;
public CheckBoxNode(String text, boolean selected) {
this.text = text;
this.selected = selected;
}
public boolean isSelected() {
return selected;
}
public void setSelected(boolean newValue) {
selected = newValue;
}
public String getText() {
return text;
}
public void setText(String newValue) {
text = newValue;
}
public String toString() {
return getClass().getName() + "[" + text + "/" + selected + "]";
}
}
class NamedVector extends Vector {
String name;
public NamedVector(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public NamedVector(String name, Object elements[]) {
this.name = name;
for (int i = 0, n = elements.length; i < n; i++) {
add(elements[i]);
}
}
public String toString() {
return "[" + name + "]";
}
}
