JTable with horizontal scrollbar

Question

Is there any way to enable horizontal scroll-bar whenever necessary?

The situation was as such: I've a JTable, one of the cells, stored a long length of data. Hence, I need to have horizontal scroll-bar.

Anyone has idea on this?

Answer 1

First, add your JTable inside a JScrollPane and set the policy for the existence of scrollbars:

new JScrollPane(myTable, JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED, JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED); 

Then, indicate that your JTable must not auto-resize the columns by setting the AUTO_RESIZE_OFF mode:

myJTable.setAutoResizeMode(JTable.AUTO_RESIZE_OFF); 

Answer 2

Set the AutoResizeMode to OFF in the properties of the jTable