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From: "Paul Hunter" <paul.hunter@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this>
Subject: Re: JComboBox pulldown pr
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One SSCCE as requested:

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class test1 extends JFrame {

    public test1 () {

        super();
        setSize(200,200);

        Container rootPane = getRootPane();

        rootPane.setLayout(new FlowLayout());

        String[] list = {"one", "two", "three"};
        JComboBox box = new JComboBox(list);

        box.setEditable(true);
        rootPane.add(box);

    }

    public static void main (String[] args) {

        test1 s = new test1();

        s.run();

    }

    public void run () {

        setVisible(true);

    }
}

"Andrew Thompson" <andrewthommo@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1169786862.048949.39520@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com...
> On Jan 26, 3:19 pm, "Paul Hunter" <baseball...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> It's been awhile since I used Swing, and I ran into an issue. I wanted to
>> have a pulldown text choice widget using a JComboBox with the following
>> code:
>>
>>   String[] list = {"one", "two", "three"};
>>   JComboBox companyName = new JComboBox(list);
>>   companyName.setEditable(true);
>
>     getContentPane().add( companyName );
>     validate();
>
>> However, the pulldown menu does not appear when the arrow is pressed. 
>> What
>> am I missing?
>
> Try the above, if that fails, I suggest
> you prepare an SSCCE..
> <http://www.physci.org/codes/sscce>
>
> HTH
>
> Andrew T.
>

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