Re: jcombobox custom renderer
Mark a ?crit :
I want to display some business objects (Sections in this case) in a
jcombobox rather than strings and I've been able to get the drop down
list to successfully display the necessary text like so:
sectionComboBox.setRenderer(new DefaultListCellRenderer() {
public Component getListCellRendererComponent(JList list, Object value,
int index, boolean isSelected, boolean cellHasFocus) {
super.getListCellRendererComponent(list, value, index,
isSelected,
cellHasFocus);
if (value instanceof Section) {
Section s = (Section)value;
setText(s.getDescription());
}
return this;
}
});
but the text in the *editor* is displayed as
com.mms.sourceit.server.Section[id=1] (the value of Section.toString())
rather than Section.getDescription().
Does anyone know what I need to do to get the jcombobox editor to
display the Section's description?
My guess is that the editor part of the jcombobox is a jtextfield, so
you don't have access to a Section in the renderer. You should detect
the case of editor with index == -1, and then get the selectedItem from
the combobox to get the section.
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