jcombobox

Putting JComboBox into JTable

Hi, I want to put individual JComboBoxes into each cells of a JTable. ie. The JComboBox content is not identical for each cell. I basically would like to be able to just call the following code to add a row of JComboBox into the JTable. Anyone has any idea? Thanks JComboBox cb1 = new JComboBox(...); JComboBox cb2 = new JComboBox(...)...

focus issue using a JComboBox as a cell editor in a JTable

I'm having issues with the following code, where I use a JComboBox to change a String value in a table cell. The JComboBox works fine, but if I click in the box and then click away without selecting anything the JComboBox's dropdown remains visible, even if I delete the row. Clicking on another Swing component like a JButton often caus...

Is there a way to make a JComboBox act like an HTML Select?

What I am trying to do mimic an HTML Select tag. I want to display text as an option but when selected, I would use its value. For example, I would have a list of country names. However, when a user selects Japan, I want to get the Locale Code for that country. So the user sees that they selected Japan, but my code will get "ja_JP" or s...

recognise combobox deselect when using Swing + models?

I'm trying to write a nice GUI in Swing that uses the proper Model-Delegate pattern as much as possible. I have a JComboBox that when changed, needs to update the model with the new data. To get the currently selected item, I am using: fooCombo.addItemListener(new ItemListener() { public void itemStateChanged(final ItemEvent arg0) {...

Java Swing Combobox with Autocomplet and Context Menu

Hi, I have auto complete for a JCombobox working by following this article: http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/07/19/adding-auto-completion-to-swing-comboboxes.html I am using the SwingX library. Now I like to add persistence support to the items in the combo box. Basically when you right click an item a context menu comes up and...

Remove border from JComboBox

Do you know any way to remove the border from a JComboBox in Java? I try the following code public class ComboFrame extends JFrame { public ComboFrame() { JPanel container = new JPanel(); JComboBox cmb = new JComboBox(new String[] { "one", "two" }); cmb.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder()); container.add...

Java - Editable ComboBox Validation

I'm looking into the various ways to validate input for an editable JComboBox. Currently, I need to restrict input to numbers in a specified range. Thus far I've found 3 distinct ways. Any thoughts on the best way to approach this? JComboBox comboBox = new JComboBox( new Object[] {"Donnie", "Danny", "Joey", "Jordan", "Jonathan"} ); ...

Disable HTML parsing in JComboBox.addItem(o)

I'm looking for a way to disable HTML parsing of the addItem() method in JComboBox(). JComboBox jHighlight = new JComboBox(); for (int i = 0; i < tl.size(); i++) { //getTagname() returns a string like "br", "a", "body" or "html" jHighlight.addItem("<" + tl.get(i).getTagname() + ">"); } The output in the JComboBox will look ...

How to make unique font color for lines in a JCombobox?

I want to set the font color for the lines/entries in a JCombobox, unique for each line. So basically when you click the dropdown arrow, you should see a few lines that are different colors, and I want to specify the colors myself based on their properties. How should I go about doing this? Thanks! ...

How do i change the UI of a JComboBox

I like to change the UI of a JComboBox from the default metal look to some custom UI, see attached image. I have tried changing all the UIDefaults for the JComboBox but to no success. How does one achieve this? jdk1.4.2 ...

Java JComboBox Custom Renderer and GTK

I have a list of Customer objects that I need to have selectable from a JComboBox. From what I read I need to implement a custom renderer to have the fields I want displayed in the list. I want my JComboBox to have entries formatted as such: +----------------------------------------------+ | Customer Name - Contact - City, State V...

Have a jcombobox filter a jtable

following this tutorial http://www.netbeans.org/kb/docs/java/gui-db-custom.html#enhancements it shows how to use a textbox to filter out the master table. Could anyone instruct me on how to do a similiar thing but use a dropdown to test against a specific column? (ie a dropdown of countries, to filter by the country column? thanks ...

jComboBox giving org.hibernate.PropertyAccessException error

Hi , There is 2 jComboBox .. and 2 Class . When form load event it will fill jComboBox1,when ActionEvent fired it will load another class with selection of the jComboBox1.I wanna get PersonelID from jComboBox.GetSelectItem method than call another class with this id. But gettin this error ; Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" javax....

jCombobox JPA HQL inner join error.

Hi everyone , i am new at Java , i got a problem like this ; i have got a desktop application , there is 2 jComboBox in JFrame.One of this jComboBox is hold Personels from Personel Table and another is take Personel's title.When jComboBox1's selected index changes occurs it will get personelid and fill jComboBox2 with its title.Thats ...

JXTreeTable and JComboBox cell editor...

Jow can I use JComboBox as cell editor in JXTreeTable ? Can you give me a working example please? ...

How can I know when the text of an editable JComboBox has been changed?

I have an editable JComboBox where I want to take some action whenever the text is changed, either by typing or selection. In this case, the text is a pattern and I want to verify that the pattern is valid and show the matches that result in some test data. Having done the obvious, attach an ActionHandler, I have found that, for typing...

how do i populate JCombobox with arraylist

I need to populate jcombobox with ArrayList is there is any way to do this. Abdul Khaliq ...

JComboBox With Larger Drop Down Width

The problem: I have a combo box that needs to fit into a fixed space as part of a Swing application. However, its contents may be quite long. I'd like the box itself to be a fixed size, truncating contents. When the down arrow is clicked, though, I'd like it to act similar to an HTML select and show a box that is long enough to fit th...

Override JComboBox Default Colors

I'm trying to override the defaults colors used by JComboBox when the L & F is Metal. I have overridden the following in UIManager to custom colors; ComboBox.font ComboBox.selectionBackground ComboBox.buttonShadow ComboBox.buttonHighlight ComboBox.disabledBackground and control controlDkShadow controlHighlight controlLtHighlight c...

Swing: Floating panel next to the selected item in a JComboBox

I've created an app with a small window (the size of a combo box). I need to create a floating panel that sits outside the window, next to the selected item in a JComboBox. (See attached image). I've been reading about the JComboBox.setRenderer(customRenderer) etc. But was just wondering before I go down this path, whether it is at...