Hi,
 I have a JTable in which one of the columns will be custom component
which is a subclass of JPanel. This custom component can handle mouse
events.

I implemented a TableCellRenderer and the final table shows my custom
component. However I want the component to be able to handle mosue
movement and clicks. Thus I did the following:

1) disable row and column selections on the JTable
2) Added a MouseListener via addMouseListener()

Now, the MouseListener function forwards the event to the component in
which the cursor is currently present and dispatches the event to the
component itself:

  static class JmolPanelJTableMouseListener implements MouseListener {
       private JTable _table;
       public JmolPanelJTableMouseListener(JTable table) {
           _table = table;
       }

       private void forwardEvent(MouseEvent e) {

           TableColumnModel columnModel = _table.getColumnModel();
           int column = columnModel.getColumnIndexAtX(e.getX());
           int row    = e.getY() / structureCellHeight;
           Object value;
           JmolPanel jmp;
           MouseEvent ev;  

           if (column != 0) return;

           System.out.println(row);

           value = _table.getValueAt(row, column);
           if(!(value instanceof JmolPanel))
               return;
           jmp = (JmolPanel)value;
           ev = (MouseEvent)SwingUtilities.convertMouseEvent(_table, e, jmp);
           jmp.dispatchEvent(ev);
    }

However the component does not appear to recieve those events (it displays
a molecular structure and clicking and dragging the mouse should rotate
the structure)

Is this the correct way to forward events from a JTable to a specific
component in the table?

If not - could somebody point me to the correct way to handle this?

Thanks
Rajarshi