Hi, I need to set some kind of background pattern (like dots,cross) for cells that are inactive.I was using lightGray color to do the same......but I want to color those cells and wish to have a different background to show that these are disabled. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks Pomchi
You'll need to create a custom TableCellRenderer and install on your table columns so that you can override the cell component's paint() method to do your custom background pattern drawing. Rob
Hi Rob, I know that this is how I can put an icon in the cell.But I want my pattern to occupy the entire cell space.It should increase or decrease with the cell width. Any example related to this would help. Thanks Pomchi [ January 09, 2002: Message edited by: Pomchi Bedi ]
Hi Nate, Thanks so much for your help. But I have one more problem.All my rows have different background colors and in each row there are a few cells that are inactive/disabled.I want the background color of those inactive cells to be the same as the other ones in the row but along with the background color I want the background pattern to appear for the diasbled cells. That means I want to change the background of the imageIcon I am rendering.Is it possible?? Thanks & Regards Pomchi
If you use images for your ImageIcons that support transparency (like Gifs) then yes, you can... you'll also need to call super.paintComponent( g ) in the first line of your PatternRenderer paintComponent() method. If you don't want to make image files, you can always just extend Icon and draw the image you need in it's paintIcon() method...
-Nate
-Nate
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