JTable in java is used to display tabular data. JTable is quite customizable and its possible to embed other swing components, be it checkbox,radiobutton,buttons or even progressbars, inside the jtable cells. In this example we see how to embed a checkbox in a jtable cell. So in short we’ll have a checkable column/or a checkbox column in our swing jtable.

Questions this Examples helps answer.

  • How to display checkboxes inside jtable cells.
  • Java Jtable checkbox column.
  • java swing checkable cells.
  • How to get the selected row in java jtable.
  • How to get checked item in swing java jtable

Screenshot

  • Here’s the screenshot of the project.

Java JTable CheckBox Column

  • We can get the checked row by clicking the ‘Get Selected’ button.

Java JTable CheckBox Column

Source Code

Lets have a look at the source code.

main.java”

 import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTable;
import javax.swing.table.DefaultTableModel;

public class MyTable extends JFrame{

  //MAIN METHOD
  public static void main(String[] args)
  {

       EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable()
       {
           public void run()
           {
               //INITIALIZE JFRAME FORM
               MyTable form=new MyTable();
               form.setVisible(true);;
           }
       });

  }

  //CONSTRUCTOR
  public MyTable()
  {
    //the form
    setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    setBounds(200,200,800,300);
    setTitle("ProgrammingWizards Channel");
    getContentPane().setLayout(null);

    //ADD SCROLLPANE
    JScrollPane scroll=new JScrollPane();
    scroll.setBounds(70,80,600,200);
    getContentPane().add(scroll);

    //THE TABLE
    final JTable table=new JTable();
    scroll.setViewportView(table);

    //THE MODEL OF OUR TABLE
    DefaultTableModel model=new DefaultTableModel()
    {
      public Class<?> getColumnClass(int column)
      {
        switch(column)
        {
        case 0:
          return Boolean.class;
        case 1:
          return String.class;
        case 2:
          return String.class;
        case 3:
          return String.class;
        case 4:
          return String.class;

          default:
            return String.class;
        }
      }
    };

    //ASSIGN THE MODEL TO TABLE
    table.setModel(model);

    model.addColumn("Select");
    model.addColumn("Position");
    model.addColumn("Team");
    model.addColumn("Points");
    model.addColumn("Manager");

    //THE ROW
    for(int i=0;i<=7;i++)
    {
      model.addRow(new Object[0]);
      model.setValueAt(false,i,0);
      model.setValueAt("Our Row"+(i+1), i, 1);
      model.setValueAt("Our Column 2", i, 2);
      model.setValueAt("Our Column 3", i, 3);
      model.setValueAt("Our Column 4", i, 4);
    }

    //OBTAIN SELECTED ROW
    JButton btn=new JButton("Get Selected");
    btn.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {

      @Override
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        //GET SELECTED ROW
        for(int i=0;i<table.getRowCount();i++)
        {
          Boolean checked=Boolean.valueOf(table.getValueAt(i, 0).toString());
          String col=table.getValueAt(i, 1).toString();

          //DISPLAY
          if(checked)
          {
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, col);
          }
        }

      }
    });

    //ADD BUTTON TO FORM
    btn.setBounds(20,30,130,30);
    getContentPane().add(btn);
  }

}

Video/Preview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJUQshXN_EY

How To Run

Just create a java project and copy the above code in your main class.

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