Combo box popup width adjusting no longer work in 1.0.6_26-b03

Question

Previously, I was able to adjusting combo box popup's width, by referring to the technique described in [http://tips4java.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/combo-box-popup/|http://tips4java.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/combo-box-popup/]. During that time, I was using 1.0.6_24-b07.
However, after I update my Java runtime to 1.0.6_26-b03, things broke.
Here is the screen shoot.
[Workable screen shoot|http://i.imgur.com/0elo7.png]
[Not workable screen shoot|http://i.imgur.com/BeKMy.png]
Here is the code snippet to demonstrate this problem.
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* NewJFrame.java
* Created on Aug 9, 2011, 4:13:41 AM
package experiment;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Container;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import javax.swing.JComboBox;
import javax.swing.JList;
import javax.swing.JScrollBar;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.event.PopupMenuEvent;
import javax.swing.event.PopupMenuListener;
import javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicComboPopup;
* @author yccheok
public class NewJFrame extends javax.swing.JFrame {
     * Adjust popup for combo box, so that horizontal scrollbar will not display.
     * Resize JComboBox dropdown doesn't work without customized ListCellRenderer
     * http://www.camick.com/java/source/BoundsPopupMenuListener.java
     * @param comboBox The combo box
    public static void adjustPopupWidth(JComboBox comboBox) {
        if (comboBox.getItemCount() == 0) return;
        Object comp = comboBox.getAccessibleContext().getAccessibleChild(0);
        if (!(comp instanceof BasicComboPopup)) {
            return;
        BasicComboPopup popup = (BasicComboPopup)comp;
        JList list = popup.getList();
        JScrollPane scrollPane = getScrollPane(popup);
        // Just to be paranoid enough.
        if (list == null || scrollPane == null) {
            return;
        //  Determine the maximimum width to use:
        //  a) determine the popup preferred width
        //  b) ensure width is not less than the scroll pane width
        int popupWidth = list.getPreferredSize().width
                        + 5  // make sure horizontal scrollbar doesn't appear
                        + getScrollBarWidth(popup, scrollPane);
        Dimension scrollPaneSize = scrollPane.getPreferredSize();
        popupWidth = Math.max(popupWidth, scrollPaneSize.width);
        //  Adjust the width
        scrollPaneSize.width = popupWidth;
        scrollPane.setPreferredSize(scrollPaneSize);
        scrollPane.setMaximumSize(scrollPaneSize);
     *  I can't find any property on the scrollBar to determine if it will be
     *  displayed or not so use brute force to determine this.
    private static int getScrollBarWidth(BasicComboPopup popup, JScrollPane scrollPane) {
        int scrollBarWidth = 0;
        Component component = popup.getInvoker();
        if (component instanceof JComboBox) {
            JComboBox comboBox = (JComboBox)component;
            if (comboBox.getItemCount() > comboBox.getMaximumRowCount()) {
                JScrollBar vertical = scrollPane.getVerticalScrollBar();
                scrollBarWidth = vertical.getPreferredSize().width;
        return scrollBarWidth;
     *  Get the scroll pane used by the popup so its bounds can be adjusted
    private static JScrollPane getScrollPane(BasicComboPopup popup) {
        JList list = popup.getList();
        Container c = SwingUtilities.getAncestorOfClass(JScrollPane.class, list);
        return (JScrollPane)c;
    /** Creates new form NewJFrame */
    public NewJFrame() {
        initComponents();
        this.jComboBox1.addPopupMenuListener(getPopupMenuListener());
    /** This method is called from within the constructor to
     * initialize the form.
     * WARNING: Do NOT modify this code. The content of this method is
     * always regenerated by the Form Editor.
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    // <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Generated Code">
    private void initComponents() {
        jComboBox1 = new javax.swing.JComboBox();
        setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        jComboBox1.setModel(new javax.swing.DefaultComboBoxModel(new String[] { "Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3", "Item 4", "This is a very long text. This is a very long text" }));
        javax.swing.GroupLayout layout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(getContentPane());
        getContentPane().setLayout(layout);
        layout.setHorizontalGroup(
            layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
            .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
                .addGap(82, 82, 82)
                .addComponent(jComboBox1, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 76, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE)
                .addContainerGap(242, Short.MAX_VALUE))
        layout.setVerticalGroup(
            layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
            .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
                .addGap(34, 34, 34)
                .addComponent(jComboBox1, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE)
                .addContainerGap(246, Short.MAX_VALUE))
        pack();
    }// </editor-fold>
    * @param args the command line arguments
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                new NewJFrame().setVisible(true);
    private PopupMenuListener getPopupMenuListener() {
        return new PopupMenuListener() {
            @Override
            public void popupMenuWillBecomeVisible(PopupMenuEvent e) {
                // We will have a much wider drop down list.
                adjustPopupWidth(jComboBox1);
            @Override
            public void popupMenuWillBecomeInvisible(PopupMenuEvent e) {
            @Override
            public void popupMenuCanceled(PopupMenuEvent e) {
    // Variables declaration - do not modify
    private javax.swing.JComboBox jComboBox1;
    // End of variables declaration
}

Answer 1

I had came across another workaround as stated here.
[http://www.jroller.com/santhosh/entry/make_jcombobox_popup_wide_enough|http://www.jroller.com/santhosh/entry/make_jcombobox_popup_wide_enough]
The popup's is having enough width to show all items. However, it is not perfect still, as the width is little too much. I still can see some extra space at the tailing of the list.
The workaround is as follow.
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.util.Vector;
// got this workaround from the following bug:
//      http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4618607
public class WideComboBox extends JComboBox{
    public WideComboBox() {
    public WideComboBox(final Object items[]){
        super(items);
    public WideComboBox(Vector items) {
        super(items);
    public WideComboBox(ComboBoxModel aModel) {
        super(aModel);
    private boolean layingOut = false;
    public void doLayout(){
        try{
            layingOut = true;
            super.doLayout();
        }finally{
            layingOut = false;
    public Dimension getSize(){
        Dimension dim = super.getSize();
        if(!layingOut)
            dim.width = Math.max(dim.width, getPreferredSize().width);
        return dim;
}