Re: JList: Scroll to Sele

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From	"Hal Vaughan" <hal.vaughan@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this>
Subject	Re: JList: Scroll to Sele
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Knute Johnson wrote:

> Hal Vaughan wrote:
>> I'm using Java 1.4.2 and I've tried searching for this and can't find it,
>> but I'm sure I saw a method for a JList to scroll to the selected item.
>> 
>> There are times a JList (in a JScrollPane) is reloaded.  On some
>> platforms, apparently, when I reload it, even though I make sure the same
>> item stays selected, users report that the list then resets to show the
>> top of the list only.
>> 
>> Maybe I'm mixing things up, but I was sure I saw something like
>> scrollToSelected() for a JList or JScrollPane, but I can't find it in the
>> API index and couldn't find it in a search.  Is it under a different
>> wording or is there another method that scrolls a JList to show the
>> selected item?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Hal
> 
> See JList.ensureIndexIsVisible() and JList.setSelectedValue()
> 
Great!  I knew about setSelectedValue(), but the ensureIndexIsVisible() is
exactly what I was looking for!  I guess it's a case of tunnel vision where
I was so stuck on what I thought I saw I missed what I needed.

Thanks!

Hal

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JList: Scroll to Selected "Hal Vaughan" <hal.vaughan@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:42 +0000
  Re: JList: Scroll to Sele "Knute Johnson" <knute.johnson@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:42 +0000
    Re: JList: Scroll to Sele "Hal Vaughan" <hal.vaughan@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:42 +0000

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