What to Override?

[dlorde]

If you just subclass DefaultCellEditor and override getTableCellEditorComponent to call the superclass method, then set the font on the Component returned, you don't have to worry about setting the text or overriding getCellEditorValue - the superclass handles that. That's what it's for. You just pass in a JTextField to the constructor and it will use that:

TableCellEditor tce = new DefaultCellEditor(new JTextField()) {

    Font ftTxt = new Font("Dialog", Font.PLAIN, 8);

    public Component getTableCellEditorComponent(JTable table, Object value, boolean isSelected, int row,
                                                 int column)
    {
        Component comp = super.getTableCellEditorComponent(table, value, isSelected, row, column);
        comp.setFont(ftTxt);
        return comp;
    }
};

Simples...

When you find yourself repeating lines of code multiple times like that, consider using an array or ArrayList, and looping. Try to remove duplicate code wherever you can.

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