Just an fyi, one of the colleagues of mine suggested this solution: overwrite the equals method in the custom class I was using. Amazingly, it solved the problem.
-----Original Message----- From: Dmitry Beransky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 3:56 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Java Swing/JComboBox Question. At 12:00 PM 1/3/2002, Reinstein, Lenny wrote: >You are right, partially Here is the updated question: > >The reason this happens is that the JComboBox is editable and I use the the >text field of the ComboBox to implement auto-complete >(I use getEditor().getEditorComponent() to the the text component that >corresponds to the editable/selected item). Oh, I see. I assume you're using the default editor component. If so, here's what happens: when you type the text into the combo editor and hit enter, it generates an action event; this action event is picked up by JComboBox's controller, that, in turn, calls getItem() on the editor component to get the newly entered string and, then, passes the returned item to the model's setSelectedItem() method. The default editor always returns entered text as a string, so setSelectedItem() is been passed a string. That's why you see them. What you need to do is to map these strings to the corresponding ObjectX. You can do it in one of two places: 1. Inside EditorComponent's getItem() (you will need to create a custom EditorComponet) 2. Inside your model's setSelectedItem Hope this helps Dmitry _______________________________________________ Advanced-swing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eos.dk/mailman/listinfo/advanced-swing _______________________________________________ Advanced-swing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eos.dk/mailman/listinfo/advanced-swing