The following code creates the JTree object and puts it in a scroll pane:
//Where instance variables are declared:
private JTree tree;
...
public TreeDemo() {
...
DefaultMutableTreeNode top =
new DefaultMutableTreeNode("The Java Series");
createNodes(top);
tree = new JTree(top);
...
JScrollPane treeView = new JScrollPane(tree);
...
}
The code creates an instance of DefaultMutableTreeNode to serve as the root node for the tree. It then creates the rest of the nodes in the tree. After that, it creates the tree, specifying the root node as an argument to the JTree constructor. Finally, it puts the tree in a scroll pane, a common tactic because showing the full, expanded tree would otherwise require too much space.
Here is the code that creates the nodes under the root node:
private void createNodes(DefaultMutableTreeNode top) {
DefaultMutableTreeNode category = null;
DefaultMutableTreeNode book = null;
category = new DefaultMutableTreeNode("Books for Java Programmers");
top.add(category);
//original Tutorial
book = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(new BookInfo
("The Java Tutorial: A Short Course on the Basics",
"tutorial.html"));
category.add(book);
//Tutorial Continued
book = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(new BookInfo
("The Java Tutorial Continued: The Rest of the JDK",
"tutorialcont.html"));
category.add(book);
//Swing Tutorial
book = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(new BookInfo
("The Swing Tutorial: A Guide to Constructing GUIs",
"swingtutorial.html"));
category.add(book);
//...add more books for programmers...
category = new DefaultMutableTreeNode("Books for Java Implementers");
top.add(category);
//VM
book = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(new BookInfo
("The Java Virtual Machine Specification",
"vm.html"));
category.add(book);
//Language Spec
book = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(new BookInfo
("The Java Language Specification",
"jls.html"));
category.add(book);
}
The argument to the DefaultMutableTreeNode constructor is the user object which is an object that contains or points to the data associated with the tree node. The user object can be a string, or it can be a custom object. If you implement a custom object, you should implement its toString method so that it returns the string to be displayed for that node. JTree, by default, renders each node using the value returned from toString, so it is important that toString returns something meaningful. Sometimes, it is not feasible to override toString; in such a scenario you can override the convertValueToText of JTree to map the object from the model into a string that gets displayed.
For example, the BookInfo class used in the previous code snippet is a custom class that holds two pieces of data: the name of a book, and the URL for an HTML file describing the book. The toString method is implemented to return the book name. Thus, each node associated with a BookInfo object displays a book name.
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