Problem JComboBox

[David Hittel]

Hi,

i have following Problem, I add some Objects to a ComboBox. In the GUI i see now the objectsname and the ID. Is it possible to display instead a Attribute value of this object per Example the attribute name. You cant really identify the object over the ID.

Now its "Class@73dds676d7" and i want to show a name like "Apple juice"

Do you have any Suggestions?


Thanks

David

[Ilja Preuss]

The "id" actually is the hashcode. What you are seeing is the return value of the toString method of the objects, which they probably inherited from java.lang.Object.

So one solution would be to override the toString method. Problem is that you might want to have a different representation for the same objects in other places.

A more flexible approach is to set a custom ListCellRenderer on the combobox.

Moving to our Swing forum...

[David Hittel]

How can i do that?

i have no idea how i could write this code. I would write in my gui class where the combo box is following method

public String toString(){
....
return name;
}

But what do i write in between and when do i call the method?

Thanks

David

[miguel lisboa]

in your Drink class you'll add something like this:

@Override

public String toString() {

return getName();

}
    

now you'll see your combo populated with your list of drinks