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Article #11380Re: JComboBox
From: Rich Wilkman
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:00
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 > > 116-1 Howard Drive > Charlottesville, VA 22903 > > 804-243-8922 (UVA) > 804-244-4648 (home) > 804-244-7922 (home fax) > 815-550-9313 (office fax) > lcohen@cs.virginia.edu -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rich Wilkman Senior Quality Assurance Engineer Borland JBuilder Team If you see something that looks like an opinion up there, it's mine and mine alone. Mail sent to me from the newsgroups won't bounce but will be ignored. If I have time, I'll respond, but you have a better chance if you confine your posts to the newsgroups =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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