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How to disable JXTable default search action?

I have a JXTable in my swing app. When I press ctrl+F on the table, default search panel is opening.

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This panel finds only substrings. I need to find similar words with my InputText. For example, I write "test" result may be "tost", "tests", "est", "tst" and etc. How do i change this searching method to my own algorithm ? Is it possible ? Or Should I disable default seaching and create my own ?

Solution

  • Override the JXTable#getSearchable method and return your own custom Searchable implementation.

    Note that the default implementation always returns the same instance (lazily created):

    public Searchable getSearchable() {
    if (searchable == null) {
        searchable = new TableSearchable(this);
    }
    return searchable;
}

    You might want to keep this in mind when overriding the method. I have no idea what the effect would be to always return a new instance.