How to add a drop down menu to a JTable cell

Question

This may be a question asked before. I searched a lot before posting here, but couldn't figure out any acceptable one.

Can some one show me a way how to do this. I simply need to get a drop down menu when i click on the cell so that I'll have to select a value from that (as a way to restrict the user selection).

If some one can help with this I believe it will help a lot of people out there. There are a lots of questions similar to this but no any clear answer. Please answer with a bit more details. An example would be much appreciated..

Thank you!

Solution

• use DefaultCellEditor with DefaultTableModel for JTable in the event that all the JComboBoxes will have identical values in the concrete TableColumn

• if will have not identical values, then to use DefaultCellEditor for JComboBoxes with custom AbstractTableModel

Comments

[Anubis]

Thanks it works! much better. This is is a correct implementation i guess, isn't it... :p

[MadProgrammer]

@SumuduLanskara it's the preferred implementation