ComoboBox values

[Nick Howell]

I was wondering if anyone oculd tell me if there was a way to assign values to combo box items so that when the user selects an item I can immediately reference the numeric value of the item. Like in html where you write:
<select>
<option value="12345">Option A</option>
<option value="67890">Option B</option>
</select>
I know how to read the item text or selected index and then use a conditional statement but that seems like a lot of unnecessary work. Thanks.

[Steve Deadsea]

You can put whatever type of object you desire in a ComboBox. You could put a custom type of object in it that has a name and a value:

class NameValueComboItem {
  public String name;
  public String value;
  public NameValueComboItem(String name, String value){
    this.name = name;
    this.value = value;
  }
  // toString() determines what appears to the user.
  public String toString(){
    return name; 
  }
}

You would then use

((NameValueComboItem)box.getItemAt(box.getSelectedIndex())).value

And you could make the value any type that you want. It wouldn't have to be a String.