Access JScrollpane which contains JTable

Question

I have a JTable inside a JScrollpane. I do not have access to the JScrollpane variable. But I have access to JTable. Now, how can I access JScrollpane using JTable.

For Example -> mytable.getAncestor(...) or something?

Answer 1

If you want to get JScrollPane from your JTable, use

JTable jTable = new JTable(rowData, colData);
JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(jTable);
// now you have the ViewPort
JViewport parent = (JViewport)jTable.getParent();
JScrollPane enclosing = (JScrollPane)parent.getParent();

Try the code below ..

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Container;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JRootPane;
import javax.swing.JScrollBar;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTable;

/**
 *
 * @author Patrick Ott <[e-mail]>
 * @version 1.0
 */
public class MainFrame extends JFrame {

    private String[][] rowData = 
    {
        {"Max", "Mustermann", "Musterhausen"},
        {"Max", "Mustermann", "Musterhausen"},
        {"Max", "Mustermann", "Musterhausen"},
        {"Max", "Mustermann", "Musterhausen"},
        {"Max", "Mustermann", "Musterhausen"},
        {"Max", "Mustermann", "Musterhausen"},
        {"Max", "Mustermann", "Musterhausen"},
        {"Max", "Mustermann", "Musterhausen"},
        {"Max", "Mustermann", "Musterhausen"},
        {"Max", "Mustermann", "Musterhausen"},
        {"Max", "Mustermann", "Musterhausen"},
        {"Max", "Mustermann", "Musterhausen"},
        {"Max", "Mustermann", "Musterhausen"},
        {"Max", "Mustermann", "Musterhausen"},
        {"Max", "Mustermann", "Musterhausen"},
        {"Max", "Mustermann", "Musterhausen"},
        {"Max", "Mustermann", "Musterhausen"},
        {"Max", "Mustermann", "Musterhausen"},
        {"Max", "Mustermann", "Musterhausen"},
        {"Petra", "Mustermann", "Musterhausen"}
    };

    private String[] columnData = 
    {
        "Firstname", "Lastname", "City"
    };
    private JTable jTable;

    public MainFrame() {
        jTable = new JTable(rowData, columnData);
        jTable.setName("CRM Table");
    }

    public void createAndShowGui() {
        this.setTitle("JTable in JScrollPane");
        this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

        this.getContentPane().add(new JLabel("CRM System"), BorderLayout.NORTH);
        JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(jTable);
        this.getContentPane().add(scrollPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        this.setSize(new Dimension(1024, 768));
        this.setVisible(true);
        Container parent = jTable.getParent().getParent();
        JScrollPane enclosing = (JScrollPane)parent;
        parent.remove(jTable);
        parent.add(new JLabel("Test"));
        // System.out.println(enclosing.getClass().getSimpleName());
    }
}

Patrick

Answer 2

Assuming the JTable is placed inside the JScrollPane, as usual:

JTable table = ...;
JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(table);

you can access the scroll pane that wraps the table with getParent () to get the viewport and use getParent () in the viewport to get the scroll pane.

JScrollPane enclosingScrollPane = (JScrollPane) table.getParent().getParent()

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