I dont know how to make dropdown in java

Question

Hi.

(using netbeans and java)

I have the following
1 text field named input 1 (named x5)
1 text field named input 2 (named plus10)
1 text field named input 3 (named plus5perc)

1 answer field (an uneditable text field)

1 button

When a number is placed into either input a calculation is done when the calculate button is pressed e.g. if i put in 2 in input 1 and click the button = input1 * 5 and the answer is displayed in the answer field when 2 is put into input 2 = (input 2 + 10) * 5 when 2 is put into input 3 = input 3 + 5%

instead of having 3 input fields i would like 1 drop down list and one input

so you choose from the drop down which you want and only have 1 input field.

i don't know how to do dropdowns etc and any help would be appreciated

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edit

anyone know how to on load hide the 3 inputs and then show the relivant input once it is selected from the combo box?

Answer 1

The drop down is called combo box in most UIs. The Java swing object is JComboBox

Here's the doc: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/JComboBox.html

And a tutorial: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/combobox.html

Answer 2

Try this link - and let me know if its useful..

http://old.nabble.com/populating-combo-box-td17459985.html

Answer 3

Sorry about the confusion.

please ignore the other post.

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answer from user: italy

two approaches:

(1) Use setVisible - When you create the fields invoke setVisible(false) on each. When a selection is made in the combo box invoke setVisible(true) on the relevant input field and setVisible(false) on the others.

(2) Use one input field - when a selection is made on the combo-box change its name

Answer 4

I gave this a try (hope that's what you want).

With all that links and tutorials already provided, you should have been able to do that (IMO).

That's what it looks like:

It does not do proper exception handling, does not round the results and is not really object oriented (just uses hardcoded indexes, be careful when changing).

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Add the components (called txtInput, cmbChoose, btnDo and txtResult in my case.

Edit the model property of your JComboBox, using Combo Box Model Editor and set it to

x5
plus10
plus5perc

This will generate the following source:

cmbChoose.setModel(new javax.swing.DefaultComboBoxModel(
    new String[] { "x5", "plus10", "plus5perc" }));

Put the following into your JButtons ActionPerformed method.

try {
    float input = Float.valueOf(txtInput.getText());
    float output = 0;

    switch (cmbChoose.getSelectedIndex()) {
        case 0:
            output = input * 5; break;
        case 1:
            output = input + 10; break;
        case 2:
            output = input * 1.05f;
    }

    txtResult.setText(String.valueOf(output));
} catch (Exception e) {
    txtResult.setText("[Error]");
}