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Thread: JTree - Remove All Nodes

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    Default JTree - Remove All Nodes

    I just have a quick question.

    I have a JTree with X number of Nodes and X number of levels and I wanted to know how I would go about removing all of the nodes from the JTree, with the exception of the root node.

    Can anyone give me some tips?
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    Default Re: JTree - Remove All Nodes

    Ok, so I figured that out by looping through until the root is a leaf and removing nodes using the DefaultTreeModel.removeNodeFromParent() method.

    Now I have a new problem.

    The reason I wanted to remove all the nodes is because I want to remove all the nodes, add a bunch of new nodes to the root to recreate the tree a different way. The problem is that once I do that I cannot expand the root node anymore. The root does have the symbol that says it has children and I have checked to make sure the root has children.

    For whatever reason, the ability to expand the tree looks like it is gone. I have tried to expand programatically, but that also doesn't work.

    Any thoughts?
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    Default Re: JTree - Remove All Nodes

    Can you post a short example that demos the problem?

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    Default Re: JTree - Remove All Nodes

    Ok, well I have a method that builds the tree. I would think that all of this is essential:
    public void buildTree(Location o,Location d,int deptTime)
        {
        	DefaultTreeModel model = (DefaultTreeModel)connectTree.getModel();
        	Object root = model.getRoot();
        	while(!model.isLeaf(root))
        	{
        		model.removeNodeFromParent((MutableTreeNode)model.getChild(root,0));
        	}
     
        	Vector<Flight> heads = new Vector<Flight>();
        	for(int i=0;i<currentRoutes.size();i++)
        	{
        		if(currentRoutes.get(i).origin.isSame(o) && currentRoutes.get(i).dest.isSame(d))
        			heads.add(currentRoutes.get(i));
        	}
        	for(int i=0;i<heads.size();i++)
        	{
        		Flight head = heads.get(i);
        		int tempTime = head.arrTime+deptTime;
        		DefaultMutableTreeNode headNode = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(head.toString());
        		Vector<Flight> parts = new Vector<Flight>();
        		for(int x=0;x<currentRoutes.size();x++)
    	    	{
    	    		if(currentRoutes.get(x).origin.isSame(d) && (currentRoutes.get(x).deptTime>=tempTime-15 && currentRoutes.get(x).deptTime<=tempTime+15))
    	    			parts.add(currentRoutes.get(x));
    	    	}
    	    	top.add(headNode);
    	    	for(int x=0;x<parts.size();x++)
    	    	{
    	    		headNode.add(new DefaultMutableTreeNode(parts.get(x).toString()));
    	    	}
        	}
        }

    Basically, two Location Objects are sent to the method. The first is an origin and the second is a departure. These Location Objects are compared to a list of Flight Objects (which contain an Origin and Destination Location) to see if the Flight Object represents the route sent to the method. Multiple Flight Objects can represent the route, just on different times. Then an int is sent to the method (representing minutes) which is used to find a list of Flights that connect with the route sent to the method, and with a layover of the minutes sent to the method (and a buffer of 15 minutes before and after for approximation). Then, a tree node, whose parent is the root, is created for each Flight Object that flies the route sent to the method. And, any connections for that Flight Object are children. Some routes may not have connections, so they have no children.

    A Location Object contains a Name and a coordinate that represents its location on a map. Fairly simple.

    A Flight Object contains a bunch of information, but for this only the Origin Location, Destination Location, and Departure Time are used.


    Thats really the all the information for this issue. This method is triggered by a JButton that draws routes out on a map and then creates a JTree of the route connections represented in the map. The problem is the JTree isn't letting me expand the Root Node the second time this method is called and causes the following error the third time this method is called:
    Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0 >= 0
    at java.util.Vector.elementAt(Vector.java:427)
    at javax.swing.tree.DefaultMutableTreeNode.getChildAt (DefaultMutableTreeNode.java:230)
    at javax.swing.tree.VariableHeightLayoutCache.treeNod esRemoved(VariableHeightLayoutCache.java:543)
    at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTreeUI$Handler.treeNod esRemoved(BasicTreeUI.java:3810)
    at javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeModel.fireTreeNodesRem oved(DefaultTreeModel.java:530)
    at javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeModel.nodesWereRemoved (DefaultTreeModel.java:310)
    at javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeModel.removeNodeFromPa rent(DefaultTreeModel.java:244)
    at GUI.buildTree(GUI.java:354)
    at GUI$3.actionPerformed(GUI.java:236)
    at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Abs tractButton.java:1995)
    at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed (AbstractButton.java:2318)
    at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed (DefaultButtonModel.java:387)
    at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultB uttonModel.java:242)
    at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseRe leased(BasicButtonListener.java:236)
    at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.jav a:6263)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponen t.java:3267)
    at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:602 8)
    at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:204 1)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.jav a:4630)
    at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.jav a:2099)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:44 60)
    at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent( Container.java:4574)
    at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(C ontainer.java:4238)
    at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Conta iner.java:4168)
    at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.jav a:2085)
    at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2478 )
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:44 60)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java: 599)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilter s(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(E ventDispatchThread.java:184)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarch y(EventDispatchThread.java:174)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispa tchThread.java:169)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispa tchThread.java:161)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThre ad.java:122)
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    Default Re: JTree - Remove All Nodes

    I was hoping more for an something compileable, but there may be enough info in there. Try updating the model direction using model.insertNodeInto rather than adding the children direction to each other. This should fire the appropriate events to update the model.

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