Question

I am trying to implement an JSpinner for time in to a JTable , it worked preaty goot at the first look but after losing the focus of the cell the edited cell is being set to “Thu Jan 01 +time+ UTC 1970” the time is being set correctly. How can I remove the Date from the Time ?

here is my hole SpinnerEditor.class , have added some comments.

Code :

public SpinnerEditor(String timeFormat) {
    super(new JTextField());

    // Default Time I want to Display (1 Hour)
    Time date = new Time(3600000);
    SpinnerDateModel timeModel = new SpinnerDateModel(date, null, null,Calendar.MINUTE);
    spinner = new JSpinner(timeModel);
    editorDate = new JSpinner.DateEditor(spinner, timeFormat);
    spinner.setEditor(editorDate);


    editorDate = ((JSpinner.DateEditor)spinner.getEditor());
    // println result : "Thu Jan 01 01:00:00 UTC 1970"
    System.out.println(editorDate.getTextField().getValue());
    textField = editorDate.getTextField();
    textField.addFocusListener( new FocusListener() {
        public void focusGained( FocusEvent fe ) {
            System.err.println("Got focus");
            //textField.setSelectionStart(0);
            //textField.setSelectionEnd(1);
            SwingUtilities.invokeLater( new Runnable() {
                public void run() {
                    if ( valueSet ) {
                        textField.setCaretPosition(1);
                    }
                }
            });
        }
        public void focusLost( FocusEvent fe ) {
        }
    });
    textField.addActionListener( new ActionListener() {
        public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent ae ) {
            stopCellEditing();
        }
    });
}

// Prepares the spinner component and returns it.
public Component getTableCellEditorComponent(
    JTable table, Object value, boolean isSelected, int row, int column
) {
    if ( !valueSet ) {
        spinner.setValue(value);
    }
    SwingUtilities.invokeLater( new Runnable() {
        public void run() {
            textField.requestFocus();
        }
    });
    return spinner;
}

public boolean isCellEditable( EventObject eo ) {
    System.err.println("isCellEditable");
    if ( eo instanceof KeyEvent ) {
        KeyEvent ke = (KeyEvent)eo;
        System.err.println("key event: "+ke.getKeyChar());    
        textField.setText(String.valueOf(ke.getKeyChar()));
        valueSet = true;
    } else {
        valueSet = false;
    }
    return true;
}

// Returns the spinners current value.
public Object getCellEditorValue() {
    return spinner.getValue();
}

public boolean stopCellEditing() {
    System.err.println("Stopping edit");
    // after stopcellEditing is called the TextField is being set with the wrong values (Thu Jan 01 01:00:00 UTC 1970)
    super.stopCellEditing();
    try {
        if( editorNumeric!=null) 
        {
            editorNumeric.commitEdit();
            spinner.commitEdit();

        }
        if( editorDate!=null)
        {
            SimpleDateFormat lFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm");
            textField.setText((spinner.getValue() != null) ? lFormat.format(spinner.getValue()) : "");
        }

    } catch ( java.text.ParseException e ) {
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,
            "Invalid value, discarding.");
    }

    return true;
}

Answer 1

You are confusing Editors and Renderers. Editor is a widget displayed when a cell is being edited. When the cell is no longer edited, the cell renderer is used to “paint” the cell. This is all explained in this paragraph. I would really recommend you to read it, as it explains clearly how table rendering is performed.

What you should do, is use a Custom CellRenderer for the involved column so that it uses your date formatter.

Take a look at this tutorial for more information on cell editors and cell renderers.