Java Swing table tree

Question

When you open a XML in Eclipse, the content can be shown in as a tree structure like

XML tree view

The tree is "embedded" in a table and the content is showed in a seperate column.

This would be very nice to replicate in Swing, not for XML content specifically, but for similar data with tree structure.

UPDATE

I just learned about JTreeTable, but I really need to do this in NetNeans. Should probably have mentioned that, sorry.

Any ideas?

What do you mean by "do it in Netbeans"? Do you need to use the component in a GUI designer? — lhballoti, Aug 19 '11 at 14:35

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 19 '11 at 14:45

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SwingX has a JXTreeTable, it's based on but much improved over the oldish examples (links to sun code/article) cited by @mKorbel

answered Aug 19 '11 at 14:45

kleopatra

@kleopatra - For NetBeans, i'm not so sure, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5612782/installing-swingx-in-netbeans – Theodor Aug 22 '11 at 07:49
@Theodor: repeating myself (the comment I made there) - mixing a beaninfo 0.9.7 with a swingx of 1.6 is _certain_ to pose problems ;-) – kleopatra Aug 22 '11 at 09:33
@kleopatra - After some head scratching, JXTreeTable works beautiful. Sorry that I doubted you =) Thank you. – Theodor Aug 24 '11 at 12:49

score 6 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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Check the following:

edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

Community

answered Aug 19 '11 at 14:40

mKorbel

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 19 '11 at 14:26

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You could try subclassing JTable and making your own custom renderer with behavior that adds/removes new rows when you expand/collapse a node.

answered Aug 19 '11 at 14:26

Seth

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-1 - you tried it? Very unlikely to get anything half-way robust by on-the-fly custom renderers, there's more issues to solve than mere visuals. Though, at it's very base, the typical J/X/TreeTable implementations _do_ have a custom renderer for the hierarchical column :-) – kleopatra Aug 19 '11 at 14:49
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+1 I do it this way already, vary fast for large data sets. The renderer has to render the indentation and the collapse/expand icon, too. – xmedeko Oct 24 '12 at 08:14

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