Return names of selected items from a checkboxTree

Question

How can I check which items are selected from a checkboxTree ?

I have already searched and I know that this code returns the last selected:

DefaultMutableTreeNode node = (DefaultMutableTreeNode) checkboxTree1.getLastSelectedPathComponent();

Is there any way to know the nodes names of the selected checkboxes?

In this case something that returns me "Colors, blue , red".

Answer 1

The node has a method getUserObject that returns the object referring to the current node (e.g., if you fed the tree with the string "red" just convert the Object for a String):

String color = (String) node.getUserObject();

To search all selected paths you can use:

TreePath[] paths = checkboxTree1.getSelectionPaths();

In turn each TreePath also has the method getLastPathComponent():

if (paths != null) {
    for (TreePath path : paths) {
        DefaultMutableTreeNode node = (DefaultMutableTreeNode) path.getLastPathComponent();
        System.out.println(node.getUserObject());
    }
}

If you also want relatives (I do not know if this is the case) can still use the method getPath that returns a Object[] with all elements from the root.