Tree Customization: Cont’d

The javax.swing.tree class has a few awkward design features:

Cell rendering is handled on a tree-wide basis; making customization of icons more challenging.

Solution: interface TreeCellRender is available

Subclassing the DefaultTreeCellRenderer is difficult;

key variables used in the interfaced method are private.

Solution: jar -xf src.jar DefaultTreeCellRenderer.java and rewrite the class

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