All posts tagged with 'J2SE'

J2SE: Cut/Copy/Paste Helper

09-Jul-10

You wouldn’t think that having a standard edit menü with Cut, Copy and Paste buttons would be much of a problem in the J2SE world, especially regarding the fact that most standard Swing components have TransferHandlers that support the 3 operations with the standard keyboard shortcuts. First try was to user TransferHandler.getCopyAction() etc. and create […]

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Enabling tooltips on a JTree

12-Aug-08

Thinks i keep forgetting. Today: Enabling a JTree in J2SE to show different tooltips on his nodes: 1. Create a custom tree renderer like so: import java.awt.Component;   import javax.swing.JTree; import javax.swing.tree.DefaultMutableTreeNode; import javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeCellRenderer;   public class TooltipTreeRenderer extends DefaultTreeCellRenderer { @Override public Component getTreeCellRendererComponent(JTree tree, Object value, boolean sel, boolean expanded, boolean leaf, int […]

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