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Re: Newbie JComboBox Key/Value pairs

>I'm trying to create a drop down menu similar to what you'd get with <HTML>,
>in that you can specify a name/value pair - the name being the value you
>need (in my case an int id number) and a String value for display to the
>user.

A JListBox can contain objects of any type. The thing that will gets dispayed is the toString() representation of the object.

The easiest way to do this is to create an inner class. Here is a fully working example.

Regards,

Frederik
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import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;

public class Main extends JFrame {
JComboBox combo;

public Main() {
Option[] options = new Option[]{new Option(1, "test"), new Option(2, "test2")};
combo = new JComboBox(options);
combo.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
System.out.println("id selected: " + ((Option)combo.getSelectedItem()).id);
}

});
this.getContentPane().add(combo);
this.setSize(200, 64);

}

public static void main(String[] args) {
Main m = new Main();
m.show();
}

public class Option {
public Option(int id, String value) {
this.id = id;
this.value = value;
}

public int id;
public String value;

public String toString() {
return value;
}

}

}
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