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Combo Box
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (eric@onshore.com)
Wed Mar 6 11:54:04 1996
From: eric@onshore.com
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 09:26:29 -0600
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Hi all,
I need to implement a Windows-style "Combo box". In other words, it's sorta
like the Choice class, but the text in the TextField is editable. I've
tried a nuber of things that I'd like to outline here.
* Thinking originally that this class was composed of a popup menu and a
Textfield, I thought if I could go in and make a new class with the
textfield editable, it would work. No. It seems to call a Peer.
* I was able to overlap a new textfield over the textfield part of Choice,
but don't feel comfortable with this. Tabbing would be screwed up, though I
couldn't test it as I was running Windows and tabbing doesn't work.
* Tried to simulate it. Tried to use Lists that would show() and hide(), but
it also doesn't seem very clean. Plus, the Panel would be oversized to
accomodate the larger size of the list.
*Looked into Menu's, but haven't seen any way to make them appear anywhere
(like popup menu).
Does anyone have any ideas on this?
Thanks,
Eric
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