First of all, apologies for posting something perhaps a bit excessively specific, but I'm not very experienced with Swing, and can't seem to find good examples that fit my needs.
So I'm trying to figure out the best way to implement the a dynamic GUI for choosing filtering criteria in Swing:
The underlying model is a class containing a list of criteria that can be negated (i.e. applied with a NOT-prefix), and a property indicating whether these should be combined with AND or OR.
The GUI would allow the user to add, change or remove criteria, and select the combination operator (and/or). The first criterium would naturally not have a combination-selector, and the third and subsequent criteria would simply use the same combination-operator as the second one.
The X-buttons on the right would be used to delete a criterium. When the Add-button is pressed, a new line of components would be added to the bottom. As changes are made, these would be reflected in the underlying model.
Of course I could implement this quite "primitively" by simply adding components to a JPanel and then updating the model accordingly, but I would prefer a neater solution, such as that provided by a TableModel.
So I'm wondering if a table with a custom TableModel and TableCellRenderer/Editor would be the best approach, or if there is a better way to implement something like this. If table is indeed the best approach, I would appreciate some pointers to how one would use TableCellRenderers or -Editors to accomplish this.
Thanks in advance.