Hi all,
I'm a first time poster here, so be gentle.
I have a realy strange problem...
I have a JScrollPane that contains a JPanel.
The JPanel has a VerticalFlowLayout.
This main JPanel then has several sub JPanels nested within it.
Each one of these sub JPanels has a GridBagLayout containing a JLabel and some sort of data entry control (JTextField, JTextArea, JComboBox, JCheckBox).
I have enough sub JPanels that the JScrollPane draws the vertical scroll bar.
In summary:
JScrollPane
--JPanel(VerticalFlowLayout) [main]
----JPanel(GridBagLayout) [sub]
------JLabel
------JTextField
----JPanel(GridBagLayout) [sub]
------JLabel
------JComboBox
----JPanel(GridBagLayout) [sub]
------..
----JPanel(GridBagLayout) [sub]
------..
----etc...
But as soon as I use the scroll bar, the JComboBoxes lose their drop down, the button is still there, but the popup list never appears. The data is still present as you can scroll through the values using the up and down arrow keys.
Even wierder, is that any JComboBox that is displayed without needing to scroll into view seems to have lost its popup list anyway!
I will mention, that the JComboBoxes are filled dynamically by adding entries to their model directly, rather than using the Object[] or List contructors, and frankly that seems to make things hella wierd anyway.
I have tried every combination of invalidate, validate, revalidate, repaint and pack that I can think of, I've even sacrificed some Diet Coke to the Swing Gods, but all to no avail.
Does any one have any ideas what is going on?
Thanks in advance,
Chris.
[Edit: Curses to all auto whitespace trimmers!]
[ July 23, 2004: Message edited by: Christian Cooper ]