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Torsten --

Beautiful!!  Thanks!!

Harry


"Torsten Welches" <torsten.welches@who.cares.netcologne.de> wrote in message
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>
> Harry,
>
> it works as designed - you get one DESELECTED event for the
> former and one SELECTED event for the new selcected item.
> You can use ItemEvent.getStateChange() to distinguish the two
> events.
>
> Torsten
>
> "Harry Whitehouse" <harry@envmgr.com> wrote:
> >I must be missing a simple, basic concept WRT JComboBoxes.  I have an
applet
> >which instantiates one combobox...
> >
> >JComboBox jComboBoxMailingType = new JComboBox();
> >
> >I add and item listener, and populate the combobox with a few selections.
> >
> > jComboBoxMailingType.addItemListener(new java.awt.event.ItemListener() {
> >      public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent e) {
> >        jComboBoxMailingType_itemStateChanged(e);
> >      }
> >    });
> >
> >
> >I've chosen to listen for itemStateChanged()  which invokes a process....
> >
> >void jComboBoxMailingType_itemStateChanged(ItemEvent e) {
> >    DoSomeProcess();
> >}
> >
> >Now the curious thing is I enter the event handler TWICE whenever I
change
> >the combobox selection.  I'd expect to enter this handler function once
per
> >change in selection.
> >
> >Baiscally, I want to DoSomeProcess() once when the combobox selection
> >changes to a new value.   Can someone point out what I'm missing here?
>