JTable. Deleting rows. Consume the event to not get dispatched further

Question

I needed to delete rows from a JTable on the delete key-press. So the use case is quite simple, the user select some rows, press the delete key, the rows get deleted. The co

Answer 1

This is MadProgrammer's code but I modified it to work with multiple selected rows at once instead of one by one:

    // Assume table is a JTable instance
    InputMap inputMap = table.getInputMap(JTable.WHEN_FOCUSED);
    ActionMap actionMap = table.getActionMap();

    inputMap.put(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_DELETE, 0), "DeleteRow");
    actionMap.put("DeleteRow", new AbstractAction()
    {
        @Override
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
        {
            int[] row = table.getSelectedRows();

            for (int i = 0; i < row.length; i++)
            {
                ((DefaultTableModel) table.getModel()).removeRow(row[i] - i * 1);
            }
        }
    });