Open Elements – JGrid Tutorial #2

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After we created a simple JGrid (see tutorial #1 we want to modify the look now. The JGrid has a lot of getter/setter to change the visualization of the grid. Read the JavaDoc for a complete overview of all properties.

Here is an example of changing colors and dimensions:

grid.setFont(grid.getFont().deriveFont(40.0f));
grid.setFixedCellDimension(56);
grid.setHorizonztalMargin(4);
grid.setVerticalMargin(4);
grid.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.LEFT);
grid.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
grid.setSelectionBorderColor(Color.BLUE);
grid.setSelectionBackground(Color.CYAN);
grid.setCellBackground(Color.LIGHT_GRAY);

After setting all properties the grid looks like this:

Tutorial2

You can download the sources for the tutorial here.

JGrid Tutorial #2

Hendrik Ebbers