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So here's my next swing question: I've got a combo box with an action
listener. When you make a selection from the combo box, the action
listener fires off and does a bunch of stuff that takes a few seconds
to execute.

However! While the action listener is executing, the combo box does
NOT collapse. That is, I would expect it to first collapse (with the
new selection highlighted) and THEN fully executed the action
listener's code.

Is there a way to do this? I've been trying out various
implementations of the action listener to get it work, such as:

  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{   comboBox.setPopupVisible(false); /* do other stuff */; }
  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {   comboBox.validate(); /
* do other stuff */; }
  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{   applicationFrame.validate(); /* do other stuff */; }

But nothing seems to work. I've even tried the:
  SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() { comboBox.validate(); /
*...*/ });

trick, to no avail. Any ideas? Or am I just misunderstanding the UI's
built-in behavior?

Thanks,
--Steve

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