Question

I only need a table to show 3 rows which get top 3 selling products from DB. The table is ready, but the there’s a huge portion of table which is practically empty, except for 3 rows. How can I set height of this scrollpane to match the height of 3 rows?

SOLUTION:

table.setPreferredScrollableViewportSize(table.getPreferredSize());

Answer 1

It’s a quirk of the JTable’s Scrollable implementation: it sets an arbitrary fixed prefScrollable size.

You null it to make the scrollPane to fall back to using the table’s preferredSize:

table.setPreferredScrollableViewportSize(null);

Edit

outch, @vedran is correct, that’s not always working in a core table with core layoutManagers (it was a nice hack in another question 🙂 sorry for the confusion. Copying his comment here:

table.setPreferredScrollableViewportSize(table.getPreferredSize());

is a viable option, though all the usual bewares about hard-coding sizes apply here as well.

A well-behaved JTable would implement a more reasonable getPreferredScrollableViewportSize, f.i calculating it in terms of content. JXTable (which is the best-behaved table, biased me :-), you could set the pref in terms of visible rows, just as in a list:

xtable.setVisualRowCount(3);