How to refresh JTable Model without overwriting the old model in the view?

Question

I'm developing a Desktop Application in java(jdk 1.6) with swing but having a problem after refreshing the view. Whenever I update the Model of a JTable, I see that the data in this model changes but a problem in the view occurs.

It only overwrites the old data in the cells with the new data and blurs the data in the cells, as if it puts one data picture on top of other. When I double click to the cells, I can read the new data. (can't post an image unfortunately)

I tried

to set datamodel at first to null,call repaint() then loading the new model and repaint()
to call fireTableDataChanged()
to search similar problems and questions

Nothing worked. I have many tables like that but only this table has such a problem.

To update underlying data model:

void loadTask(Task t) {

    (....)       
    TaskPropertiesModel = new DefaultTableModel();
    Object[][] data = new Object[][]
            {
                {"Start :", t.getStart()},
                {"End   :", t.getEnd()},
                {"Freq. :", t.getFrequency()},
                {"Roles :", roles},
                {"Hard  :", t.getHard()},
                {"Values:", values}                
            };

    TaskPropertiesModel.setDataVector(data, new Object[2]); //no column is shown
}

Table Properties:

    TaskPropertiesTable.setMaximumSize(new java.awt.Dimension(150, 90));
    TaskPropertiesTable.setMinimumSize(new java.awt.Dimension(150, 90));        
    TaskPropertiesTable.setRowSelectionAllowed(false);
    TaskPropertiesTable.getTableHeader().setResizingAllowed(false);
    TaskPropertiesTable.getTableHeader().setReorderingAllowed(false);        
    TaskPropertiesTable.setTableHeader(null);        
    TaskPropertiesTable.setPreferredScrollableViewportSize(TaskPropertiesTable.getPreferredSize());

    TaskPropertiesTable.setModel(new javax.swing.table.DefaultTableModel(
        new Object [6][2],new String [2] ));
    TaskPropertiesTable.setDefaultRenderer(Object.class, new MultiLineCellRenderer());

MultiLineCellRenderer:

public class MultiLineCellRenderer extends JTextArea implements TableCellRenderer {

public MultiLineCellRenderer() {
setLineWrap(true);
setWrapStyleWord(true);
setOpaque(true);
}

public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table, Object value,
  boolean isSelected, boolean hasFocus, int row, int column) {      

 if (isSelected) {
  setForeground(Color.BLACK);
  setBackground(Color.LIGHT_GRAY);
 }
 else {
   setForeground(Color.BLACK);
   setBackground(Color.WHITE);
 }
setFont(table.getFont());

if (hasFocus) {      
     setBorder(new FocusBorder(Color.RED, Color.RED));
  if (table.isCellEditable(row, column)) {
      setForeground(Color.BLACK);
      setBackground(Color.LIGHT_GRAY);
  }
} else {
  setBorder(new BevelBorder(1));  // This was emptyBorder. 
                                  //after changing it, the problem is solved
}

if (!table.isCellEditable(row, column)) {
      setForeground(Color.BLACK);
      setBackground(Color.LIGHT_GRAY);
  }

setText((value == null) ? "" : value.toString());


//---setting the row height--//
}

Thanks in advance

Isil

nothing of what you tried (except doing research - that never hurts :-) is ever needed. Instead, something is wrong with the code you did _not_ show, time for an sscce — kleopatra, Nov 06 '11 at 10:09
"Magically" the problem is solved when I set the cell border. (changed from EmptyBorder to BevelBorder)There was also another (similar) problem about scrolling. When I scrolled on this table, the data on the cells were affected too and got a blurry text. This problem is also solved after setting the border. Any comments? — isilpekel, Nov 15 '11 at 14:21
shoul I give more information about the other components or is this ok? — isilpekel, Nov 15 '11 at 20:39

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 09 '12 at 13:08

All tables that I defined had the same problem. After scrolling, all the cells rendered as checkbox, combobox, textarea etc. went blurry until they are clicked separately. There was an update problem. The problem is resolved when the related TableCellRenderers set the background colour of the cells. This "probably" updates the cells automatically after the problem occurs.

How to refresh JTable Model without overwriting the old model in the view?

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