Re: Deleting a Row in a JTable

Roedy Green <my_email_is_posted_on_my_website@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>What is the UI convention to let the end user delete a row in a
>Jtable?
"That's easy" I thought, so I checked in the OSF/Motif Style Guide,
The IBM SAA Common User Access manuals and the Windows Interface
Guidelines. Neither table nor spread*** was in the index of any of
them.

So, I guess the most pervasive convention is Microsoft Excel. If you
are lucky enough not to have it, Open Office Calc behaves similarly.
The delete key erases the _contents_ of every field in the selected
row(s) but it does not erase the row(s). Delete on the Edit (or right
click) menu erases the selected row(s). If erasing the contents of
every field in the row makes no sense, for example in a database, then
the delete key will erase the row.
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