How to change font in JTable?

[Thomas Fly]

After converting from j2sdk-1.4 to j2sdk-1.3, I end up with big ugly fonts in my JTable. I can successfully change the column header fonts back with

jTable_flightResults.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Dialog", 0, 11));

but that doesn't change the font size in the table itself. Nor does:

jScrollPane_flightResults.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Dialog", 0, 11));

Anybody know how to change that stuff?

[Sai Prasad]

You need to play with the TableCellRenderer and the method public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(...). Basically you need to return a JLabel after setting the font you needed. Having said that, it is unnecessary to do all this work for the assignment.

[Thomas Fly]

Thanks Sai. I've determined that the problem is that I'm writing the cells as HTML, and 1.3 doesn't do HTML quite like 1.4. The reason I went to HTML was that I wanted to do some fancy formatting- however, I can do all that with a custom TableCellRenderer as you suggest, something like:

  private CustomTableCellRenderer cellRenderer = new CustomTableCellRenderer();
 
enumColRenderer = jTable_flightResults.getColumnModel().getColumns();
 
while (enumColRenderer.hasMoreElements()) {
  TableColumn tableColumn = (TableColumn) enumColRenderer.nextElement();
  tableColumn.setCellRenderer(cellRenderer);
  }
 
public class CustomTableCellRenderer extends JLabel implements TableCellRenderer {
 
  public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table, Object value,
                     boolean isSelected, boolean hasFocus, int row, int column) {
    setFont(new java.awt.Font("Dialog", 0, 11));
    setText((String) value);
    return this;
    }
  }   /* End class MultiLineHeaderRenderer */

And yeah, I know all this isn't really "necessary."