JTable: How to combine several columns

[Laurent Sate]

Hello,
I have a JTable with 4 columns and some rows.

TableDetailCellRenderer renderer = new TableDetailCellRenderer();
lTabDetail = new TableDetailModel(1,4);   
detailTable = new JTable(lTabDetail);  
TableColumnModel detailTableColMod = detailTable.getColumnModel();
detailTableColMod.getColumn(0).setPreferredWidth(330);
detailTableColMod.getColumn(1).setPreferredWidth(30);
detailTableColMod.getColumn(2).setPreferredWidth(60);
detailTable.setDefaultRenderer(detailTable.getColumnClass(1),renderer);

In fact i want to combine the 4 columns in 1 for the first row. How can I do that?
Thanx for your help.
[ January 22, 2002: Message edited by: LS ]

[Nathan Pruett]

LS,

Please re-register with a user name that follows the JavaRanch Offical UserName Policy. Your user name must be in the format "First Name" + space + "Last Name", and can't be obviously fake.

As to merging columns... you'd probably want to do that in whatever TableModel you are using in your table...

-Nate