Combo box on JEditoPane (HELP)

Question

hello,
is there any way for me to create a combo box on my JEditorPane at runtime... that is when i'm running my app i want to press the F4 key to make a combo box appear on the JEditorPane. I wanna also destroy it when i press F5.....
Thanks in advance for your help
Bernard

Answer 1

May be this is what you exactly want !Check this out.
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
class Popup extends JFrame
    private JPopupMenu pop;
    private JList combo;
    private JEditorPane editor;
    Popup ()
        pop=new JPopupMenu();
        editor=new JEditorPane();
        editor.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter(){
            public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent me)
                if(me.isPopupTrigger())
                  pop.show(editor,me.getX(),me.getY());
        String str[]={"Is ","this is","the one","you want ?"};
        JList combo=new JList(str);
        pop.add(combo);
        this.getContentPane().add(editor);
        this.setSize(500,400);
        this.setVisible(true);
        this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    public static void main(String a[])
        new Popup();
}  NOTE :Right click on the editor to view the popup.