How to update the text of Node of JTree? (request of code reference)

Well,
You would better take care about model yourself. If your don't touch your model, you are right--default model consists of DefaultMutableTreeNode's. But there is some trick to get tree view updated. Call nodeChanged after modifications to node. Or use insert/remove functions in DefaultTreeModel to change data.

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In my opinion you want to attach particular object to each one of the nodes in your tree, so... take a look at setUserObject and getUserObject methods of DefaultMutableTreeNode class. To do this, just overwrite toString method of the object that will be attached to your tree node. When you attach object with overwritten method toString(), the return value will be shown as a text of this node.

When you operate with your tree you should opearte with the model of your tree! You should use methods nodeChanged, nodesChanged, removeNodeFromParent(MutableTreeNode node), insertNodeInto(MutableTreeNode newChild, MutableTreeNode parent, int index) and s.o.

Best regards,
Valeri

If you just want to change all text to appear in upper case then the easiest way to achieve this is to define your own tree cell renderer.

public class MyTreeCellRenderer extends DefaultTreeCellRenderer
{
     
   public Component getTreeCellRendererComponent(
      JTree tree, Object value,
      boolean selected, boolean expanded,
      boolean leaf, int row, boolean hasFocus)
   {
      if (value!=null)
      {
         value = value.toString().toUpperCase();
      }
      return super.getTreeCellRendererComponent(
         tree, value, selected, expanded,
         leaf, row, hasFocus);
   }      
}

actually, the capaitalization of all the text in the tree is done by clicking on a button of my application, it's not changed automatically when I start the application. I am trying to do this by the following codes:

DefaultTreeModel data = (DefaultTreeModel)tree.getModel();
DefaultMutableTreeNode node = (DefaultMutableTreeNode)data.getRoot();
node.setUserObject(((String)node.getUserObject()).toUpperCase());
data.nodeChanged(node);

However, there is no response of the tree, do u need extra to refresh the tree?

Do you want to change the actual data, or are you just interested in how it is displayed?
If you're only interested in how it's displayed then you're better off using a renderer as I described above.
Otherwise you not only have to enumerate thru all the tree nodes (which could become expensive), but you also have to remember to convert any new nodes.

Using a renderer avoids these issues.

The renderer would also allow you to do things such as switch from upper back to lowercase and visa versa.

Dear Object,

I am only interested in displaying only.

I have a question about the renderer u suggested!

For the renderer, when it will be executed, how can I trigger it?


Thanks!

You just need to tell the tree to use your renderer to paint the nodes.

tree.setCellRenderer(new MyTreeCellRenderer());

Whenever the tree needs to renderer a node, your renderer will then be called to retrieve a component to paint the node.