VIDEO: Coding the FrostWire search filters UI

Get in the zone with me for a good 15 minutes, maybe you’ll catch a few eclipse tricks and you’ll learn a little bit about how I think (and make mistakes along the way of fixing something on FrostWire)

How to obtain the coordinates of the JTable cell a mouse is hovering over, useful for tooltips within cell renderers.

public String getToolTipText(MouseEvent event) { /* * This is a Java Swing lesson on how to obtain the coordinates of the current cell * as you hover with the mouse on a JTable. * * You cannot use the renderer component, since it seems that once the table is done * stamping the cells with […]

Java: Have a JTable’s column preferred width adjusted perfectly to the size of the longest string in the model

Here’s a utility method I’ve coded for FrostWire’s partial download dialog. With it I’m able to adjust a JTable’s column by iterating over the table’s column model data and calculating the exact dimensions required to render the longest string found. You can specify a maximum width (to avoid some really long strings from screwing up […]