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Re: JComboBox

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From: Timothy Reaves
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:00
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The problem is I'm not sure which is a heavy weight component!

Rich Wilkman wrote:

> Timothy:
>
> The window that drops down falls behind the heavyweight items because it
> is lightweight (check your 2.0 hintsandtips.txt file for the beginning
> of the whole lightweight v. heavyweight issue; it's important in JFC).
> The way to fix this is to not mix and match lightweight and heavyweight
> components.
>
> -Rich
>
> Timothy Reaves wrote:
> >
> >         I seem to be having great problems using this part; if on a
> > panel, at some point, the drop down portion is no longer visible.  I
> > have several BevelPanels with lots of other widgets, all Swing based.
> > Usually there will be a combination of JBCL (Borland) widgets, or
> > lately, widgets from ProtoView.
> >
> >     Initially, when objects are added, clicking the drop down button
> > produces the expected list.  As some point (after adding things to the
> > panel) the list is no longer visible, or is partially obscured.  Even
> > when the drop down is not visible, you can use the arrow keys to select
> > an item.
> >
> >     I am sure that what is happening is that the drop down is appears
> > behind the other widgets, but I have been unable to change this.  Does
> > anyone have any experience with this?  All help is greatly appreciated.
>
> --
>
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> Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
> Borland JBuilder Team
>
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>
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Date: 1999/06/15
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