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Re: JComboBox

#7221
From: Michael Rachow
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 20:25
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OK
I asked the combobox to early for its size.
Now I'm doing on event windowOpened
jdbCombobox.setDropDownWidth(jdbCombobox.getSize().getWidth());
Mic
Michael Rachow <michael@famrachow.de> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
3b421d86_2@dnews...
> Ouhhhh yes
> and in addition I should have seen this because MemberInsight uses a bold
> font
> for stuff defined at the "last" level of derivation.
> Nearly all of my comboxes result from columns with picklists defined for
> so I forgot completely that there are more general comboboxes.
>
> Michael
>
> Robert A. Vasseur <vasseura@mscomm.com> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
> 3b41ece5_2@dnews...
> > Thanks for the info. The JCombo does not seem to have that method. But I
> > suppose that I could use the JdbCombo instead of the JCombo then use the
> > getFontMetrics ToolKit method to decide how wide the thing should be.
> >
> > Michael Rachow <michael@famrachow.de> wrote in message
> > news:3b40dc28$1_2@dnews...
> > > setDropDownWidth()
> > > but it should not be easy to retrieve a useful size from the surface.
> > >
> > > Greetings
> > > Michael
> > >
> > > Robert A. Vasseur <vasseura@mscomm.com> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
> > > 3b409094_1@dnews...
> > > > Anyone know how to expand the size of the list popup on a JComboBox?
I
> > > have
> > > > always listed both a code and a code description in a combo, which
> makes
> > > it
> > > > necessary to make the list popup much bigger than the combobox
itself.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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