I am trying to achieve a very simple thing, I tried different options but none seems to work. I have a simple JTable, in a column I use JLabel in order to show the text and the icon. I just want to have the text to be on the left of the cell and the Icon to the right.
if I use this snippet:
label.setHorizontalTextPosition(SwingConstants.LEFT);
label.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.RIGHT);
I just get the icon on the right as I want, but the text is immediately on the left of the icon. So I am setting the icon and text gap.
I am setting it like this:
int width = getWidth();
label.setSize(width, getHeight());
AffineTransform affinetransform = new AffineTransform();
FontRenderContext frc = new FontRenderContext(affinetransform,true,true);
int textwidth = (int)(label.getFont().getStringBounds(label.getText(), frc).getWidth());
label.setIconTextGap(width - textwidth - label.getIcon().getIconWidth());
Debugging it, it seems to do what is supposed to do, but I got this result:
I tried to add a bit of tolerance (subtracting textwidth 2 times) this is the result:
By the way, the text is shown if I reduce the gap again, but of course, I do not get things aligned as I want.
What I simply would like to achieve is a renderer similar to the editor component which is a combo box as you can see below:
This is not a priority task for me but I would really like to understand how to manage this.
EDIT:
I also tried to use a Container (also a JPanel) in order to add 2 JLabels and manage the text and the icon better as suggested by @MadProgrammer, but using the code below the cell is empty, only the background is visible
public java.awt.Component getTreeTableCellRendererComponent(TreeTable treeTable, Object value, boolean selected, boolean hasFocus, int row, int column) {
Container container = new Container();
JLabel label = new JLabel();
JLabel icon = new JLabel();
label.setText("XXX");
icon.setIcon(myIcon);
if (row % 2 == 0) {
container.setBackground(new java.awt.Color(220, 245, 230));
}
else {
container.setBackground(new java.awt.Color(240, 255, 240));
}
label.repaint();
icon.repaint();
container.add(label, BorderLayout.WEST);
container.add(icon, BorderLayout.CENTER);
container.revalidate();
container.doLayout();
container.setVisible(true);
container.repaint();
return container;
}
the code above runs without throwing exceptions..
CodePudding user response:
Had this old code lying around demonstrating the concept of using a panel as a renderer. The first 3 characters will be displayed on the left and the remainder on the right:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.table.*;
public class TableRendererPanel
{
static class MultiLabelRenderer implements TableCellRenderer
{
private JPanel panel;
private JLabel red;
private JLabel blue;
public MultiLabelRenderer()
{
red = new JLabel();
red.setForeground(Color.RED);
blue = new JLabel();
blue.setForeground(Color.BLUE);
panel = new JPanel();
panel.setLayout( new BoxLayout(panel, BoxLayout.X_AXIS) );
panel.add(red);
panel.add(Box.createHorizontalGlue());
panel.add(blue);
}
public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table, Object value, boolean isSelected, boolean hasFocus, final int row, final int column)
{
panel.setBackground( isSelected ? table.getSelectionBackground() : table.getBackground() );
if (value == null || value.toString().isEmpty())
{
red.setText(" ");
blue.setText(" ");
return panel;
}
// Set the text for the two labels
String text = value.toString();
red.setText( text.substring(0, 3) );
blue.setText( text.substring(3) );
return panel;
}
}
public static void createAndShowGUI()
{
JTable table = new JTable(5, 3);
table.setPreferredScrollableViewportSize(table.getPreferredSize());
table.getColumnModel().getColumn(0).setCellRenderer( new MultiLabelRenderer());
JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane( table );
table.setValueAt("abcde", 0, 0);
table.setValueAt("123456789", 1, 0);
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
frame.add( scrollPane );
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo( null );
frame.setVisible(true);
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater( () -> createAndShowGUI() );
}
}