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Re: JComboBox

#11380
From: Rich Wilkman
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:00
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Leo:

You've mixed heavyweight and lightweight components.  The dropdown for
your JComboBox is getting stuck behind the heavyweight container that
it's in.  Start with the info in your hintsandtips.txt file; this is a
big, important issue to understand when working with JFC.

-Rich

Leo Cohen wrote:
> 
> I'm experimenting with JComboBox. My problem is that when I press the
> pull down arrow, I get an empty list. By empty, I mean totally blank. In
> fact, it's the same color as the background bevel panel, and the only
> reason I know it's there is because I have a button under it that gets
> covered over.
> 
> I've tried with initial entries in it as well. Only the top - selected -
> entry shows. The others are lost in the blank. Actually, they are there,
> as some experimenting shows, but you can't see it.
> 
> Is there any way around this problem?
> --
> Leo Cohen
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