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Java Swing, 2nd Edition
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Java Swing, 2nd Edition

by Dave Wood, Robert Eckstein, Marc Loy, James Elliott, Brian Cole
November 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1278 pages
38h 26m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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A Simple Tree

Before we look at the models supporting the JTree class, let’s look at a very simple example of a tree built with some of the various L&Fs (Figure 17-1). The javax.swing.DefaultMutableTreeNode class serves as our node class. You don’t have to worry about specifically making a node a leaf. If the node has no references to other nodes by the time you display it, it’s a leaf.

A simple JTree in the Metal, Motif, and Mac L&Fs

Figure 17-1. A simple JTree in the Metal, Motif, and Mac L&Fs

This example works by building up a series of unconnected nodes (using the DefaultMutableTreeNode class) and then connecting them. As long as we stick to the default classes provided with the tree package, we can build a regular model out of our nodes quite quickly. In this example, we build the model based on an empty root node, and then populate the tree by attaching the other nodes to the root or to each other. You can also build the tree first, and then create the model from the root node. Both methods have the same result. With a valid tree model in place, we can make a real JTree object and display it.

// TestTree.java // A simple test to see how we can build a tree and populate it // import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; import javax.swing.tree.*; public class TestTree extends JFrame { JTree tree; DefaultTreeModel treeModel; public TestTree( ) { super("Tree Test Example"); setSize(400, 300); setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE); ...
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