Re: JTable, JScrollPane &

From	"A. W. Dunstan" <a..w..dunstan@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this>
Subject	Re: JTable, JScrollPane &
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Date	2011-04-27 15:40 +0000
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Rich Sweeny wrote:

> A. W. Dunstan wrote:
>> I need to display a JTable.  In this case the width of each cell in the
>> last column varies - it's a collection of text & color swatches,
>> represented by JLabels and JPanels stuffed into a containing JPanel.
>> 
>> I can get a vertical scroll bar to appear by putting enough entries in
>> the table, but no matter what the width of my columns it never puts in a
>> horizontal scroll bar.  Yes, I can force one by setting AUTO_RESIZE_OFF
>> but then I *always* get a horizontal scrollbar, even when I don't need
>> one. Also, the table always starts out much too narrow to display the
>> entire
>> line, scroll bar or not.  I'd really like to get either a scroll bar, or
>> for the table to resize wide enough to show the longest line.
>> 
>> The least-worst solution I've found so far is to force a scroll bar and
>> add a ComponentListener to listen for changes in the size of the
>> JComponent containing the JScrollPane, and resize the width of the last
>> column accordingly.
>> 
>> Is there a better way of doing horizontal scroll bars in a JTable?
>> 
>> 
> 
> There are 3 constants:
> HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER
> HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED
> HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS
> or
> VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER
> VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED
> VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS
> 
> Example: This will always give you a vertical and never a horizontal:
> 
> JScrollPane scroll = new JScrollPane(table,
> JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS,
> JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);
> 
> Rich

The defaults for JScrollPane(Component) are *_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED. -aI needed
one, but never got one.

-- 
Al Dunstan, Software Engineer
OptiMetrics, Inc.
3115 Professional Drive
Ann Arbor, MI  48104-5131

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