Question regarding Renderers

[Gregg Bolinger]

Why is it that the Renderer get's called everytime you move your mouse over a Cell or TreeNode?
For example, I have a JTable and I have a TableCellRenderer that extends DefaultTableCellRenderer. In here I build my tooltip for each Row from information in a Database. What I have noticed though is that everytime I move my mouse around the JTable, the Tooltip get's built over and over which means my database get's queried over and over.
Is there anyway for the table to get rendered via this Renderer but only when the table is constructed the first time or refreshed?
Thanks.

[Eric Blische]

I suspect it's needing to repaint because the sprite (arrow, cursor) passing over your component is causing little bits to need refreshing.
With my UI that is mostly a huge JTree, I implemented a feature whereby the nodes' toString returns a cached value rather than building the string over and over uneccesarily. You might consider doing the same, to eliminate all those database calls ...
just a thought,
Eric.

[Gregg Bolinger]

Thanks Eric. I have considered that. I am trying to get different opinions and suggestions regarding this before I start adding a lot more code. What I will probably end up doing is just using a cached result set. Then I can make the same calls on that instead of creating a whole new object to store my cached data.
Thanks again.

[Bill Liteplo]

I agree with the caching idea.
AFAIK, JTables continually ask for getValue from the renderer as you move your cursor over them. JTrees, JLists, do not.
Bill