How to make Jtable column contain checkboxes?

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Published on 2010-05-25T01:40:32Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 1:51 UTC
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Preface: I am horrible with java, and worse with java ui components.

I have found several different tutorials on how to add buttons to tables, however I am struggling with adding checkboxes. I need to have a column that draws a text box ticked on default (cell renderer i think handles that), then on click of tickbox, unticks the box, redraws said box, and fires off an event somewhere I can track.

currently I have a custom cellrenderer:

public class GraphButtonCellRenderer extends JCheckBox implements TableCellRenderer {
public GraphButtonCellRenderer() {
}
public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table, Object value, boolean isSelected, boolean hasFocus, int row, int column) {
    if(isSelected)
        setSelected(true);
    else
        setSelected(false);
    setMargin(new Insets(0, 16, 0, 0));
    setIconTextGap(0);

    setBackground(new Color(255,255,255,0));
    return this;
}}

Which currently handles drawing the tick box, but only ticks and unticks the box if that row is selected. But I don't know how to handle the events. Really what I am asking is possibly a link to a good tutorial on how to add checkboxes cleanly to a JTable. Any assist is greatly appreciated :)

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