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Tom
Tom

Reputation: 176

getRowSorter equivalent for JTable in Java 1.4

Are there any equivalent functions for getting the sorting option for the headers in the JTable? Or are there any workarounds available?

Basically, I cannot execute this function because I am currently using Java 1.4, and upgrading the jdk is not an option.

if (table.getRowSorter().getSortKeys().get(column).getSortOrder() == SortOrder.DESCENDING) {
        return SortOrder.DESCENDING;
}

When compiling the code above it cannot find the method for getSortOrder().

Upvotes: 0

Views: 308

Answers (1)

MadProgrammer
MadProgrammer

Reputation: 347332

TableRowSorter was introduced in Java 1.6, so there is no equivalent API available for Java 1.4

Instead, if row sorting is important to you, you will need to implement a sorting mechanism of your own.

When I started with Java 1.3, we wrote a "proxy" model which would do a virtual sort (the proxy model would act as a wrapper around a TableModel and mapped the indices from the TableModel to the JTable so as to make it appear as if it was sorted)

Upvotes: 3

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