Please Help! I am meeting a deadline and i still haven't figured this out....

[oblivionph]

Hi All!

I am working on a project and the deadline is really fast approaching... I have been trying to solve this problem for weeks and I still havn't figured this out. I'm not really that familiar with swing, and I have been stucked in a JTable limbo.

My JTable implements single row/column selection, cells are editable, and has Double values in it. I wanted my JTable to behave in such a way that whenever I press <ENTER>, it will select(or focus) the next cell on the right or when it is already at the end of the column, it will select the cell of the first column below. The default behaviour of JTable is that It selects(or focuses) the next cell below, and so on and so forth...

Another problem also is that when I try to edit the values on the cells, by pressing a key on the keyboard, it appends the character at the end of the existing value. How do I override it that instead of appending it, it will replace the existing value.

I couldn't find a way to figure this thing out... please help...

[destin]

I'd add a KeyListener to the JTable to listen for when they press enter.

You must implement it at the top (public class MyClass extends JApplet, implements KeyListener)
and add it to the instance of JTable (table.addKeyListener( this )) and add the following methods:

public void keyPressed( KeyEvent ke ) { }
public void keyTyped( KeyEvent ke ) { }
public void keyReleased( KeyEvent ke ) { }

So you would probably want to do this in one of those methods:

if ( ke.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_ENTER ) {
// code to set focus the specific cell
}

[oblivionph]

I was looking for sum code to override the Selection mechanism of JTable... I hope I find any...