How to copy and paset bewteen JTables

[Jimguld]

Hi everyone,

I wish to copy cells between two JTables. Does anybody know how to do this. I have searched everywhere and not really found annything. Only some recommendations about using the clib borad. But how, any code examples would be appreciated highly.

Cheers
Jim

 

[hologram]

I hope this will help. I don't remember where I got it from.

package com.jim.swing.excel;

/**
* ExcelAdapter enables Copy-Paste Clipboard functionality on JTables.
* The clipboard data format used by the adapter is compatible with
* the clipboard format used by Excel. This provides for clipboard
* interoperability between enabled JTables and Excel.
*
* @author unascribed
* @version 1.0
*/

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.datatransfer.*;
import java.util.*;

public class ExcelAdapter implements ActionListener
{
private String rowstring,value;
private Clipboard system;
private StringSelection stsel;
private JTable jTable1 ;
/**
* The Excel Adapter is constructed with a
* JTable on which it enables Copy-Paste and acts
* as a Clipboard listener.
*/

public ExcelAdapter(JTable myJTable)
{
jTable1 = myJTable;
KeyStroke copy = KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_C,ActionEvent.CTRL_MASK,false);
// Identifying the copy KeyStroke user can modify this
// to copy on some other Key combination.
KeyStroke paste = KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_V,ActionEvent.CTRL_MASK,false);
// Identifying the Paste KeyStroke user can modify this
//to copy on some other Key combination.
jTable1.registerKeyboardAction(this,"Copy",copy,JComponent.WHEN_FOCUSED);

jTable1.registerKeyboardAction(this,"Paste",paste,JComponent.WHEN_FOCUSED);
system = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
}
/**
* Public Accessor methods for the Table on which this adapter acts.
*/
public JTable getJTable() {return jTable1;}
public void setJTable(JTable jTable1) {this.jTable1=jTable1;}
/**
* This method is activated on the Keystrokes we are listening to
* in this implementation. Here it listens for Copy and Paste ActionCommands.
* Selections comprising non-adjacent cells result in invalid selection and
* then copy action cannot be performed.
* Paste is done by aligning the upper left corner of the selection with the
* 1st element in the current selection of the JTable.
*/
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{
if (e.getActionCommand().compareTo("Copy&quot==0)
{
StringBuffer sbf=new StringBuffer();
// Check to ensure we have selected only a contiguous block of
// cells
int numcols=jTable1.getSelectedColumnCount();
int numrows=jTable1.getSelectedRowCount();
int[] rowsselected=jTable1.getSelectedRows();
int[] colsselected=jTable1.getSelectedColumns();
if (!((numrows-1==rowsselected[rowsselected.length-1]-rowsselected[0] &&
numrows==rowsselected.length) &&
(numcols-1==colsselected[colsselected.length-1]-colsselected[0] &&
numcols==colsselected.length)))
{
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Invalid Copy Selection",
"Invalid Copy Selection",
JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
return;
}
for (int i=0;i<numrows;i++)
{
for (int j=0;j<numcols;j++)
{
sbf.append(jTable1.getValueAt(rowsselected,colsselected[j]));
if (j<numcols-1) sbf.append(&quot;\t&quot;
}
sbf.append(&quot;\n&quot;
}
stsel = new StringSelection(sbf.toString());
system = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
system.setContents(stsel,stsel);
}
if (e.getActionCommand().compareTo(&quot;Paste&quot==0)
{
System.out.println(&quot;Trying to Paste&quot;
int startRow=(jTable1.getSelectedRows())[0];
int startCol=(jTable1.getSelectedColumns())[0];
try
{
String trstring= (String)(system.getContents(this).getTransferData(DataFlavor.stringFlavor));
System.out.println(&quot;String is:&quot;+trstring);
StringTokenizer st1=new StringTokenizer(trstring,&quot;\n&quot;
for(int i=0;st1.hasMoreTokens();i++)
{
rowstring=st1.nextToken();
StringTokenizer st2=new StringTokenizer(rowstring,&quot;\t&quot;
for(int j=0;st2.hasMoreTokens();j++)
{
value=(String)st2.nextToken();
if (startRow+i< jTable1.getRowCount() &&
startCol+j< jTable1.getColumnCount())
jTable1.setValueAt(value,startRow+i,startCol+j);
// System.out.println(&quot;Putting &quot;+ value+&quot;at row=&quot;+startRow+i+&quot;column=&quot;+startCol+j);
}
}
}
catch(Exception ex){ex.printStackTrace();}
}
}
}

 

[Jimguld]

Thanks so much, this works...amazing and so easy.

Jimhimselv