Java Swing, Trying to replace boolean check-box in a JTable with an image-icon checkbox

Question

So I have a JTable with check-boxes. I would like to have the check-boxes contain one image when they are \"checked\" and another image when they are \"unchecked\" (i.e., displa

Answer 1

Assuming that you have just a normal JTable you may set appropriate icons in renderer and editor:

public void setIcons(Jtable table, int column, Icon icon, Icon selectedIcon) {
    JCheckBox cellRenderer = (JCheckBox) table.getCellRenderer(0, column);
    cellRenderer.setSelectedIcon(selectedIcon);
    cellRenderer.setIcon(icon);

    DefaultCellEditor cellEditor = (DefaultCellEditor) table.getCellEditor(0, column);
    JCheckBox editorComponent = (JCheckBox) cellEditor.getComponent();
    editorComponent.setSelectedIcon(selectedIcon);
    editorComponent.setIcon(icon);
}