FilterTablePanel is a panel through which FilterModelEvents are created and propagated to FilterModelListeners. FilterTablePanel contains a collection of VisualFilters, one of each is shown at a time. The appropriate VisualFilter to use for a column is taken by calling the methods:

public VisualFilter getDefaultFilter(Class columnClass);

public VisualFilter getDefaultFilter(int field);

By default, FilterTablePanel installs visual filters for objects, strings, numbers and boolean values. This is done upon initialization with the method:

protected void createDefaultFilters();

You can construct a FilterTablePanel by using one of the constructors:

FilterTablePanel(String [] fields);

FilterTablePanel(String[] fields, Class[] classes);

FilterTablePanel(TableModel);

FilterTablePanel also includes a FilterModel object which is responsible for sending the events to the FilterModelListeners. FilterTableModel needs to be added to that list, so that it can receive the FilterModelEvents.

Example: Create a FilterTablePanel and use it to filter the data of a table.

//filteredModel is the FilterTableModel

//create the panel

FilterTablePanel filterPanel = new FilterTablePanel(filteredModel);

//add filteredModel to the list of FilterModeListeners

FilterModel filterModel = filterPanel.getFilterModel();

filterModel.addFilterModelListener(filteredModel);