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Re: JComboBox not opening :-(

#10531
From: Holger Stratmann
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
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> 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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From: Holger Stratmann <hs@cassiopeia.de>
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Date: 1999/09/03
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