Question

I need to store a mouse click event whenever a user clicks on a table column for sorting.

I’m basically saving the MouseEven:

public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e_)

I store e_ on a global variable so later I can fire that same event and sort the table to the previous user sort action.

But when I manually fire the previous stored mouse event the table does not get sorted.

Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemEventQueue().postEvent(_mouseEvent);

So basically this is how I want it to work. User clicks on a JTable column for sorting.
I store the created MouseEvent on a global variable. When the JTable gets re-created, I need it to be set to the previous sort action.
This is why I need to re-fire the stored MouseEvent but its not working. Any ideas?

Answer 1

It has nothing to do with mouse event. You have to store the state of your row sorter. Take a look at RowSorter API. You can retrieve and restore this state by using getSortKeys() and setSortKeys() methods. Obviously can get RowSorter from your table using getRowSorter()method.

Hope it makes sense.