Posting combo box to textarea.

[alexiel davis]

Actually I am hoping that someone can give me a example on how to pass value from combo box to textarea. I have done one..but it doesn't works.

copy.addActionListener(
new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent e )
{
t2.setText( names.getSelectedText());//i don't i can use getSelectedText to get the string value of names from the combox box
}
}
);

boxname.addActionListener(
new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent e )
{
names = boxNames[boxname.getSelectedIndex()]
 }
    }
      );
       

[Michal Bienek]

You need to add an ItemListener, not an ActionListener to obtain combo box selection events. You'll need to implement an itemStateChanged(ItemEvent e) method in which you can retrieve the selected combo box value via e.getItem(), and then populate your text area with that.