Java swing - one searchbox for multiple tabs

Question

I want to have a GUI application which would contain multiple tabs, each with its own Table. I would like to include a search box below the tabs which would filter the currently selected tab. How can this dynamic behaviour be achieved?

question whats happens with value in "searchbox" in case that in "searchbox" was typed any value and you'll switch to another tab ??? — mKorbel, Sep 11 '12 at 08:04
where exactly is the problem (except a little logic, as @mKorbel noted)? — kleopatra, Sep 11 '12 at 08:06

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

figure one you can to share RowSorter/RowFilter for all JTables in current JVM instance
- filtering works for all JTables
- notice there could be performance issue in the case that there is/are JTable(s) contains bunch of rows
- quite possible for JTables that contains a few (limited number of) rows together
determine (from arrays of tabs) visible tab, visible JComponents(or have to look at SwingUtilities), then remove RowSorter/RowFilter from all JTables instances and then to add RowSorter/RowFilter to the visible an focusable JTable
JTextField for RowSorter/RowFilter should be crated only once times

Java swing - one searchbox for multiple tabs

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