JComboBox Selection

Not really sure what you are asking. A combo box is not designed to select text. It contains a finite number of items. You select an item, not the partial text of the item.

Read the Swing tutorial on [url http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/combobox.html]How to Use Combo Boxes[/url].

camickra at 2007-7-10 3:13:10 >

If you have your combo box has strings as items (which i assume, because you said you want to select text...) you simply write an ActionListener like you would do for a JButton. in actionPerformed you cast the source to JComboBox and getSelectedIdem() then returns your String (cast to string)...like this:

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent aE) {

JComboBox combo = (JComboBox)eA.getSource();

String YourString = (String)combo .getSelectedItem();

//pass YourString to method or something

}

jEti182a at 2007-7-10 3:13:11 >