Once you have installed the product (see installation guide here) create a new project and package and make sure that the Virtual Machinery Sorted Table project is visible.

• Add a new class VMTableDemo1 to your package which inherits from JPanel and can be constructed visually.
• Select the operation to add a new bean
• Add an instance of SortedListPanel to the initial pane
• Save the bean
• Add the following code to the main method of your class (your code may not be exactly the same as it will be determined by what you called your instance variables) -

VMTableDemo1 aVMTableDemo1 = new VMTableDemo1();

// ******** Code to initialise table model is here ***
com.virtualmachinery.sortedtable.demo.SimpleAccountTableModel aSimpleAccountTableModel = new com.virtualmachinery.sortedtable.demo.SimpleAccountTableModel();
String[][] data = com.virtualmachinery.sortedtable.demo.TableDemoFactory.getSampleData();
aSimpleAccountTableModel.addAllRecords(data);
aVMTableDemo1.sortTable.setSortTableModel(aSimpleAccountTableModel );
// ******** End of code to initialise table model ***
		
frame.setContentPane(aVMTableDemo);

• Run the code and you should see something like this -

• Add a new class VMTableDemo to your package which inherits from JPanel and can be constructed visually.
• Select the operation to add a new bean
• Add an instance of ListPanelWithSortButton
• Save the bean
• Add the following code to the main method of your class (your code may not be exactly the same as it will be determined by what you called your instance variables) -

VMTableDemo aVMTableDemo = new VMTableDemo();

// ******** Code to initialise table model is here ***
com.virtualmachinery.sortedtable.demo.SimpleAccountTableModel aSimpleAccountTableModel = new com.virtualmachinery.sortedtable.demo.SimpleAccountTableModel();
String[][] data = com.virtualmachinery.sortedtable.demo.TableDemoFactory.getSampleData();
aSimpleAccountTableModel.addAllRecords(data);
aVMTableDemo.sortTable.setSortTableModel(aSimpleAccountTableModel );
// ******** End of code to initialise table model ***
		
frame.setContentPane(aVMTableDemo);

• Run the code and you should see something like this -

The code below (which is inserted in the main method) illustrates how the appearance of the table can be modified. In this case we are striping the columns painting each alternate one yellow. We are also altering the size of the third column and applying right alignment to the fifth column -

	/**** Start of code to change the table to show alternate colours on each column ****/
	javax.swing.JTable theTable = aVMTableDemo.sortTable.getScrollPaneTable();
	javax.swing.table.DefaultTableCellRenderer aRenderer = new javax.swing.table.DefaultTableCellRenderer();
	aRenderer.setBackground(java.awt.Color.yellow);
	theTable.getColumnModel().getColumn(3).setPreferredWidth(20);
	int i = 0;
	while ( i < theTable.getColumnModel().getColumnCount()) {
		if (i==4) {
			javax.swing.table.DefaultTableCellRenderer rend2 = new javax.swing.table.DefaultTableCellRenderer();
			rend2.setBackground(java.awt.Color.yellow);
			rend2.setHorizontalAlignment(javax.swing.SwingConstants.RIGHT);
			theTable.getColumnModel().getColumn(i).setCellRenderer(rend2);
		}
		else {theTable.getColumnModel().getColumn(i).setCellRenderer(aRenderer);}
		i+=2;
	}
	/**** End of code to change the table to show alternate colours on each column ****/
		
	frame.show();

The table should look something like this -