Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!news-out.news.tds.net!newsreading01.news.tds.net!86597e80!not-for-mail From: "Bjorn Abelli" Subject: Re: One missing link in j Message-ID: X-Comment-To: comp.lang.java.gui,comp.l Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.gui In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gateway: time.synchro.net [Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92] Lines: 42 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:36:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 96.60.20.240 X-Complaints-To: news@tds.net X-Trace: newsreading01.news.tds.net 1303918576 96.60.20.240 (Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:36:16 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:36:16 CDT Organization: TDS.net Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.gui:1944 To: comp.lang.java.gui,comp.l "Oliver Wong" wrote... > "Eric Sosman" wrote ... >> Oliver Wong wrote: >>> "RC" wrote in message >>> news:f5ua7t$2ci$1@news.nems.noaa.gov... >>>> Where is that missing link between DefaultTableColumnModel and >>>> DefaultTableModel? >>>> or between TableColumnModel and TableModel? >>>> >>>> Thank Q very much in advance! >>> >>> TableModel is an object that can be queried to provide information >>> about tabular data. This object contains no information about how this >>> data should be displayed, or what business rules might apply to the >>> interaction between the user and this data (e.g. this user cannot edit >>> certain parts of the data, etc.) >> >> You were doing fine, and I was applauding, right up until >> the parenthetical remark. How do you reconcile that remark with >> the isCellEditable() method? > > Bad design on Sun's part? Surely, the error cannot be mine. ;) I'm not sure I get the objections of either part here... I agree with Oliver that the TableModel should be a "backing unit", separate from the user interface, but now I'm not quite sure what you mean with "interaction between the user and this [displayed] data". As far as I'm concerned there is still a difference between the possibility to edit displayed data (in the interface) and the isCellEditable() in the TableModel; the possibility to affect the "backing data". /// Bjorn A --- * Synchronet * The Whitehouse BBS --- whitehouse.hulds.com --- check it out free usenet! --- Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92 Time Warp of the Future BBS - telnet://time.synchro.net:24