JTable Calls Custom Cell Renderer Method… Continuously

Question

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I\'m new to the language, so I\'m not sure if this is acceptable behavior or not.

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Answer 1

The problem seems to stem from having JTable's setRowHeight() inside the custom cell renderer, as it calls the custom cell renderer, throwing it into an infinite loop.

I had to add in a check to see if the current row height matched the calculated word wrapped row height. If it did, I didnt try to setRowHeight() again.

Corrected Code:

import java.awt.Component;

import javax.swing.JTable;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.table.TableCellRenderer;

//custom cell renderer for word wrapping, but if you use, you have to
//implement zebra striping functionality which the default renderer has
public class LineWrapCellRenderer extends JTextArea implements TableCellRenderer
{
    private int numOfTimesCalled;
    @Override
    public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(
            JTable table,
            Object value,
            boolean isSelected,
            boolean hasFocus,
            int row,
            int column)
    {
        System.out.println("Line Wrap Cell Renderer Called: " + numOfTimesCalled++);
        System.out.println("row:"+ row + ", col:" + column);
//set up the row size based on the number of newlines in the text in the cell
        int fontHeight = this.getFontMetrics(this.getFont()).getHeight();
        int numWraps = value.toString().split("\r\n|\r|\n").length;
        int rowHeight = fontHeight * numWraps;
//if the calculated rowHeight is the same as the row height of row,
// then don't call setRowHeight again, as doing so will throw us into
// an infinite loop
        if(rowHeight != table.getRowHeight(row))
        {
            table.setRowHeight(row, rowHeight);

//configure word wrapping
            setWrapStyleWord(true);
            setLineWrap(true);
//use the table's font
            setFont(table.getFont());
        }
//zebra striping, because whatever cell uses this renderer loses the
//default cell renderer zebra striping
        if(isSelected)
        {
            setBackground(table.getSelectionBackground());
        }
        else
        {
            if(row%2 == 1)
            {
                setBackground(UIManager.getColor("Table.alternateRowColor"));
            }
            else
            {
                setBackground(table.getBackground());
            }
        }
        this.setText(value.toString());
        return this;
    }
}