I don't know that an ActionListener will work well for a JCheckBox in a JTable since the check box isn't a real button but rather a rendering of a checkbox. Perhaps playing with the table model will help. For instance you can use HTML to display a strike through of Strings displayed in table cells. For instance below I create a custom TableModel that extends DefaultTableModel and holds rows with a Boolean object followed by objects of a TextWrapper class that I've created that changes its toString result depending on a boolean.
e.g.,
import java.util.Vector;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.table.DefaultTableModel;
public class StrikeThroughRow {
public static final Object[][] DATA = {{Boolean.TRUE, "Monday", "fe"},
{Boolean.FALSE, "Tuesday", "fi"}, {Boolean.TRUE, "Wednesday", "fo"},
{Boolean.FALSE, "Thursday", "fum"}, {Boolean.TRUE, "Friday", "foo"}};
public StrikeThroughRow() {
}
private static void createAndShowUI() {
JTable table = new JTable(new StrikeThroughModel(DATA));
JScrollPane scrollpane = new JScrollPane(table);
JFrame frame = new JFrame("StrikeThroughRow");
frame.getContentPane().add(scrollpane);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
createAndShowUI();
}
});
}
}
class StrikeThroughModel extends DefaultTableModel {
public StrikeThroughModel(Object[][] data) {
super(new String[]{"Check", "Work Day", "Giant Speak"}, 0);
for (int i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
Vector<Object> rowVect = new Vector<Object>();
rowVect.add(data[i][0]);
if (data[i].length > 1) {
for (int j = 1; j < data[i].length; j++) {
rowVect.add(new TextWrapper(data[i][j].toString(), (Boolean)data[i][0]));
}
}
addRow(rowVect);
}
}
@Override
public Class<?> getColumnClass(int columnIndex) {
if (columnIndex == 0) {
return Boolean.class;
}
return super.getColumnClass(columnIndex);
}
@Override
public void setValueAt(Object value, int row, int column) {
if (column == 0) {
for (int i = 1; i < getColumnCount(); i++) {
TextWrapper textWrapper = (TextWrapper) getValueAt(row, i);
textWrapper.setStrikeThrough((Boolean) value);
fireTableCellUpdated(row, i);
}
}
super.setValueAt(value, row, column);
}
}
class TextWrapper {
private String text;
private boolean strikeThrough = false;
public TextWrapper(String text) {
this.text = text;
}
public TextWrapper(String text, boolean strikeThrough) {
this(text);
this.strikeThrough = strikeThrough;
}
@Override
public String toString() {
if (strikeThrough) {
return "<html><strike>" + text + "</html></strike>";
}
return text;
}
public void setStrikeThrough(boolean strikeThrough) {
this.strikeThrough = strikeThrough;
}
}
I'm betting that there are better solutions including creating a custom renderer for your cells, but the code above offers a quick and dirty fix.