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Reputation: 3

Populate combo box with array list in Swing

I create an GUI with an combo box which I want to populate with ArrayList. I tried with my coding but it doesn't work. 

private void jcbSourceActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {                                          
      ArrayList al=new ArrayList();
        al.add("A");
        al.add("B");
        al.add("C");
        al.add("D");
        al.add("E");

        jcbSource.setModel(new DefaultComboBoxModel(al.toArray()));
        jcbSource.addItem(al.toString());
    }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2027

Answers (1)

Sergei Bubenshchikov
Sergei Bubenshchikov

Reputation: 5371

Try to set String type for generics, i.e. use JComboBox<String> ArrayList<String> and DefaultComboBoxModel<String> like in example below

public class Test extends JFrame {
    public Test() {
        getContentPane().setLayout(new FlowLayout());
        final JComboBox<String> jcbSource = new JComboBox<String>();
        jcbSource.setSize(new Dimension(30, 20));
        add(jcbSource);

        JButton setupButton = new JButton("Setup model");
        setupButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                ArrayList<String> al = new ArrayList<String>();
                al.add("A");
                al.add("B");
                al.add("C");
                al.add("D");
                al.add("E");

                String[] items = new String[al.size()];
                al.toArray(items);

                jcbSource.setModel(new DefaultComboBoxModel<String>(items));
            }
        });
        add(setupButton);

        pack();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args){
        new Test().setVisible(true);
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

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