createBoundComboBox(ValueModel, ValueMode, String

[Jurijus Jarmakas]

I am using createBoundComboBox(ValueModel, Value Model, String...
when I am clicking on the combobox everything looks ok, but when I move mouse to select an item it becomes invisible ??? (there is some kind of magic going on)

any help?

[Jurijus Jarmakas]

final List sexValues = new SexValues().getSexValues();

class SexWrapper extends ValueModelWrapper {

public SexWrapper(ValueModel valueModel) {
super(valueModel);
}

public Object getValue() throws IllegalArgumentException {
// from sex to sexValue object

return super.getValue();
}

public void setValue(Object value) throws IllegalArgumentException {
// set from sexValue object to sex

super.setValue(value);
}
}

ValueModel sexListHolder = new ValueHolder(sexValues);

SexValue sexValue = (SexValue) sexValues.get(1);

ValueModel selectedHolder = new SexWrapper( new ValueHolder(sexValue) );

JComboBox sexSelector = getFormModel().createBoundComboBox(selectedHolder,
sexListHolder, "description1");


formBuilder.getLayoutBuilder().cell( new JLabel("Sex") );
formBuilder.getLayoutBuilder().cell( sexSelector, "colSpec=leftref");
formBuilder.row();

[adepue]

I have the exact same problem - haven't had time to investigate it yet, though.

[vpeurala]

I have that exact same problem too, and it isn't limited to only bound comboboxes. If I create an ordinary combo box with

JComboBox combo = new JComboBox();

I still have that same problem in a Spring-RCP application.

Could it be that somebody sets some static property affecting all comboboxes somewhere in Spring-RCP? I started to get these "invisible" items after I updated Spring-RCP from CVS about a week ago.

I am using Java 1.5 update 1.

[adepue]

I'm using Java 1.5 as well... I wonder if that could be common amongst us all? I'm also using jgoodies looks. One could wonder if there is a strange interaction between Java 1.5, jgoodies looks, and possibly spring-rich? I do know that if I use the nifty auto completing combobox feature of spring-rich that the problem goes away (for those particular comboboxes).


- Andy

[Jurijus Jarmakas]

I tried
new ComboBoxAutoCompletion( jcombobox );

It fixed the above described problem but introduced another one: it does not display correctly selected value, it shows the string value of the object which is a bean (the values in the drop down list are showing correctly).

[Jurijus Jarmakas]

Ok, I resolved it, I had to add toString method to my bean to display right value.

[adepue]

toString() is a workaround - but this is a bug that has been recently fixed in cvs I believe. With the fix it should pull the currently selected value from the property just as the list does.

- Andy

[TRiNiTy]

Has this problem been fixed? I am using the latest version of RCP and I still get this problem.

[pdbruycker]

The problem you're describing is related to jdk1.5. The ComboBoxAutoCompletion class fixes this problem.

Peter