Assign form fields to object members.

Question

Hello all,
I have the following code to assign values from object memebes to Swing Combo boxes. How do assign the values of JComboBoxes back to birdata members withou going through each Combo box individually or without wrting event for each combo boxes? I want to put it in a loop so it takes care of all combo boxes.
Thanks for your reply.
-Hitesh
private javax.swing.JComboBox jComboBoxfieldsarray[] = new javax.swing.JComboBox[3];
private String comboboxfieldstrarray[] = new String[3];
bir birdata = new birdata();
jComboBoxfieldsarray[0] =jComboBox_surf_rtg_cd;
jComboBoxfieldsarray[1] =jComboBox_expjt_rtg_cd;
jComboBoxfieldsarray[2] =jComboBox_othjt_rtg_cd;
comboboxfieldstrarray[0] =birdata.surf_rtg_cd;
comboboxfieldstrarray[1] =birdata.expjt_rtg_cd;
comboboxfieldstrarray[2] =birdata.othjt_rtg_cd;
//Assign values of birdata members to JComboBoxes
for ( int i = 0; i< jComboBoxfieldsarray.length; i++ ){
setjCombobox( jComboBoxfieldsarray, comboboxfieldstrarray[i]);

Answer 1

You're assuming that each event listener can only handle one combo box, which is the case if you're using anonymous inner classes
combobox.addItemListener(new ItemListener()
   public void itemStateChanged(...) yada, yada, yada
}But there is no reason why you can't create a concrete inner class whose constructor would take in an index to your array and store it to a private data member of the inner class. When the listener method is called, the source of the event is the combo box, so you can cast it to JComboBox and get the value of the selected item. The index you stored can then be used to save the value selected the way you want to. Then, just...
  combobox.addItemListener(new MyListener(1));