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From: Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Using getSelectedValuesList() instead of the deprecated getSelectedValues()
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:38:29 -0400
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On 07/16/2012 10:46 PM, Lew wrote:
> On Monday, July 16, 2012 4:47:53 PM UTC-7, Jeff Higgins wrote:
>> Daniel Pitts wrote:
>>> Higgins wrote:
>>>> clusardi2k... wrote:
>> &gt;&gt;&gt; Hello, can anyone give me a simple/complete example to replace
>> &gt;&gt;&gt; jLst.getSelectedValues() below using jLst.getSelectedValuesList().
>> &gt;&gt;&gt;
>> &gt;&gt;&gt; Object str_array [];
>> &gt;&gt;&gt;
>> &gt;&gt;&gt; if ( !jLst.isSelectionEmpty() )
>> &gt;&gt;&gt; {
>> &gt;&gt;&gt; str_array = jLst.getSelectedValues();
>> &gt;&gt;&gt;
>> &gt;&gt;&gt; System.out.println(&quot;Selected:&quot; + str_array[0]);
>> &gt;&gt;&gt; }
>> &gt;&gt; I think the java.util.List&lt;E&gt; interface has a method to return an array.
>> &gt;&gt;

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>> &gt; Indeed it does, but that is terrible advice.
>>
>> str_array = jLst.getSelectedValuesList().toArray();
>>
>> Is that much better?
>>
>> &gt;
>> &gt; jList.getSelectedValuesList().get(0) is equivalent to
>> &gt; jList.getSelectedValues()[0];
>> &gt;
>
> What's better is
>
> System.out.println("Selected: " + jLst.getSelectedValuesList().get(0));
>
> with appropriate guards against NPE.
>
> Unless, as markspace points out, the OP actually needs an array for
> reasons not in the original post.
>