before cell select jtable event

Question

Are there any event that is fired when cell is about to be selected? There is ListSelectionListener, but it has event that is fired only after selection has happened. I need

Answer 1

whatever the goal is that you want to achieve: thinking "mouseEvent" is not enough, selection might change for other reasons (f.i. keyboard input, programmatic trigger, ..). Reverting an unwated change in a listener is not an option: as you already noted that would require to keep a duplicate of the selection and might confuse other listeners.

The only way (that I see, could be others, of course ;-) is not to let it happen in the first place: implement a List SelectionModel which doesn't change the selection if certain conditions are met. My favourite (biased me :-) is a VetoableListSelectionModel It's a subclass of DefaultListSelectionModel which in SingleSelectionMode waits for vetoes from interested parties before actually changing.

Here's a (raw) code snippet using it:

    VetoableListSelectionModel vetoableSelection = new VetoableListSelectionModel();
    VetoableChangeListener navigationController = new VetoableChangeListener() {

        public void vetoableChange(PropertyChangeEvent evt)
                throws PropertyVetoException {
            // custom method that implements your condition 
            if (!canSelect((int) evt.getOldValue(), (int) evt.getNewValue()))
                throw new PropertyVetoException("uncommitted changes",
                        evt);
        }

    };
    vetoableSelection.addVetoableChangeListener(navigationController);
    myTable.setSelectionModel(vetoableSelection);