JGrid Tutorial #1

#Swing

At the moment all JGrid demonstrations are very complex and use a lot of Java2D code, web services an so on. So many people asked me to create some simple demos. For this reason I started some bottom-up tutorials for the JGrid.

Here is the first one: You can integrate a JGrid in every swing application. Just add it to a container:

JGrid grid = new JGrid();
getContentPane().add(new JScrollPane(grid));

Normally you want to visualize some data in the grid. All data must wrapped in a ListModel:

DefaultListModel model = new DefaultListModel();
for(int i=0; i < 100; i++) {
  model.addElement(new Integer(i));
}

In a final step you must set the model for the grid:

grid.setModel(model);

With this few lines of code you can add a JGrid to your code. Because the default renderer of the grid uses a label and renders the toString()-result of the data to the grid you will see all Integers in a grid:

Tutorial1

You can download the source file for the tutorial. To run the program you need the jgrid.jar in your classpath.

Hendrik Ebbers

Hendrik Ebbers is the founder of Open Elements. He is a Java champion, a member of JSR expert groups and a JavaOne rockstar. Hendrik is a member of the Eclipse JakartaEE working group (WG) and the Eclipse Adoptium WG. In addition, Hendrik Ebbers is a member of the Board of Directors of the Eclipse Foundation.

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