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Article #10531Re: JComboBox not opening :-(
From: Holger Stratmann
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 00:00
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> http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/archive/tech_topics_arch/mixing/mixing. > html > > or search the archive of this forum on dejanews.com > > Not trying to be abrupt, but smarter people than me have discussed this > issue in great length. Thanks, that helped :-) The problem was that I was using a Frame, not a JFrame - everything worked fine, but obviously, the ComboBox opened even behind the windows, so nothing was visible at all! All attempts to make the ComboBox use heavyweight pop-ups failed, so I have now changed all code to Swing-only... wasn't much fun, but it's ok now :-) > > > > > I tried toggling "lightweightpopupenabled", but it didn't make a > difference! > > > > > > > > > Holger Stratmann <hs@cassiopeia.de> wrote in message > > > news:37CA9AA7.BBB897CF@cassiopeia.de... > > > > I have the following problem: > > > > I use a JCombobox, but for some reason, the popup/dropdown doesn't > > > > "open", i.e. I click the down-arrow "button" and nothing happens! > > > > The entries are there and if I use the keyboard, I can scroll through > > > > the entries using the down-arrow key. > > > > > > > > Any ideas?? > > > > > > > > > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 111d45,db68ab5d3e7c81cc X-Google-Attributes: gid111d45,public From: Holger Stratmann <hs@cassiopeia.de> Subject: Re: JComboBox not opening :-( Date: 1999/09/03 Message-ID: <37CF9E48.1E80B8E8@cassiopeia.de> X-Deja-AN: 520552745 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <37CA9AA7.BBB897CF@cassiopeia.de> <7qeves$70p13@forums.borland.com> <37CC5071.635BF2ED@cassiopeia.de> <7qhjai$ahp10@forums.borland.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Another Netscape Collabra Server User Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: Holger@cheerful.com Newsgroups: borland.public.jbuilder.java.swing