Changing the font of a non-editable ComboBox

Question

Hello everyone,
I need a small combobox. So I set a font of a specific size to the combo's
editor. That works nice als long as the combo is editable; but when it becomes
uneditable, the default bold font is used and some items don't fit in the
field any more. How to prevent this?
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.plaf.*;
class ComboEditorFont extends JFrame {
  Font fontM= new Font("Monospaced", Font.PLAIN, 13);
  public ComboEditorFont() {
    setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    setSize(100,100);
    setLayout(null);
//  Changing the font in the UIManager doesn't work either
/*    Font defaultComboBoxFont= UIManager.getFont("ComboBox.font");
    FontUIResource fui= new FontUIResource(fontM);
    UIManager.put("ComboBox.font", fontM);
//    UIManager.put("ComboBox.font", fui);
    JComboBox cmb = new JComboBox(new String[]{"ABC","DEF","GHI","LMO"});
    cmb.setBounds(20,20, 48,20);
//    cmb.setEditable(true);
    JTextField editor= (JTextField)(cmb.getEditor().getEditorComponent());
    editor.setFont(fontM);
//    cmb.setRenderer(new MyCellRenderer());
    add(cmb);
//    UIManager.put("ComboBox.font", defaultComboBoxFont);
    setVisible(true);
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
      public void run() {
     new ComboEditorFont();
  class MyCellRenderer extends JLabel implements ListCellRenderer {
    public MyCellRenderer() {
      setOpaque(true);
    public Component getListCellRendererComponent(JList list,
                                                   Object value,
                                                   int index,
                                                   boolean isSelected,
                                                   boolean cellHasFocus) {
      setFont(fontM);
      setText(value.toString());
      Color background;
      Color foreground;
      JList.DropLocation dropLocation = list.getDropLocation();
      if (dropLocation!=null && !dropLocation.isInsert() &&
       dropLocation.getIndex() == index) {
     background = Color.BLUE;
     foreground = Color.WHITE;
      } else if (isSelected) {
     background = list.getSelectionBackground();
     foreground = list.getSelectionForeground();
      } else {
     background = list.getBackground();
     foreground = list.getForeground();
      setBackground(background);
      setForeground(foreground);
      return this;
}

Answer 1

- an offense to the english grammarThe exaggeration was meant to be ironic, not mean. Seriously, if a post is unreadable why bother posting it at all?
offense/non offense, I'd start to teach this language on 15/oct/2009, untill now ---> MSDN, ASM,I don't know if you refer to the Java or English language...
Either way, hopefully you have merely started learning it - not teaching it! :o)
- ranging from slightly to completely off-topic
always exists the different way, my off-topic "for you hide" declaracion for topic,
I agreed with some rules, disagre with strict..., Swing = something based on variable interpretations about Java decl., isn't exist stricts borders there, only God can tell us, If is it Swing, or if isn't Swing relevants, not my trully,No, no, I meant "off-topic" with regard to the poster's question: he had tackled the problem for editable comboboxes already, and was specifically talking about non-editable comboboxes, so obviously altering the editor as you suggested was hopeless.
- giving out "coding advice" without any justification
be sure that 99pct from "answers" fired these guys find out the "coding advice" on Go..., on another forum(s), and they will not returns back here anymore, for not-acceptable Hot Potato Games (if is or isn't topic relevant for this forum), I'm afraid the grammar prevented me to understand this whole sentence...
help is by Camickr's company, by German Kommunität (rel. for EU TimeZone), I'm only to learn (somehow) this language, Read - Translate ---> T - Write, An online translation system may help you to read these forums, but really don't post text translated this way!
with peaceFullFace and takeAnyNoticeOfIt kopik,No personal offense meant, I now think you're well-intended (but really awkward all the same).
Edited by: jduprez on Nov 6, 2009 4:06 PM - fixed spelling - mind you, I'm not a native english speaker either!