JTable - cell editor is not high enough to fit the text

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I'm using standart JTable with standart cell editor to edit string values. On some platforms, when cell editor is opened, text doesn't fit in it and part of the text is cut. For example "_" symbol is not visible, as well as it's hard to distingush "l" and "1" because the upper part of the symbol may be cut.

Probably I should just increase the cell height, but how much?

The result very depends on current Look & Fell, for example on Windows everything may be fine, but on Linux described effect appear.

@javapowered what is `standart cell editor`, did you mean that TableCell is editable, nothing else, or there is some JComponent inside TableCell — mKorbel, Jul 20 '11 at 06:17
@Hovercraft - it's one of the few thingies a LayoutManager has nothing to do with :-) — kleopatra, Jul 20 '11 at 08:25
@mKorbel standart cell editor is one used in `DefaultTableModel` where `getColumnClass` return `String` — Oleg Vazhnev, Jul 20 '11 at 21:23

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '11 at 21:55

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You can calculate row height using table's font height.

FontMetrics metrics = table.getFontMetrics(); 
int fontHeight = metrics.getHeight();
table.setRowHeight( fontHeight + delta );

delta can be anything you're comfortable with :)

answered Jul 19 '11 at 21:55

Eugene Ryzhikov

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getFontMetrics should accept argument, I wrote this way `FontMetrics metrics = table.getFontMetrics(table.getFont());` – Oleg Vazhnev Jul 20 '11 at 13:24
hm is it possible to calculate how much "delta" do I need? I.e. how much extra space cell editor reserves for the border? – Oleg Vazhnev Jul 22 '11 at 13:51
Border.getBorderInsets method can help you, I think – Eugene Ryzhikov Jul 22 '11 at 15:18

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 19 '11 at 21:43

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You can modify the Font use by your cell editor.

Font font = new Font("Helvetica", Font.PLAIN, 22);

answered Jul 19 '11 at 21:43

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