Combobox removing focus!? help!

Question

Why when I use the combobox component does it remove focus
from other movieclips?? For instance...I have a button with
onRollOver and onRollOut functions. These work fine, but once I
click on a combobox, they break...and won't work.
I've looked in other places but I haven't found a fix for
this yet. Doing setfocus(this) only puts a ugly yellow highlight
box around my button, and then kills the swf with an infinite loop.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

hi, hold your data in a Hashtable with the value as key
and the visible text as value,use a renderer for the combobox like here
class MyCellRenderer extends JLabel implements ListCellRenderer {
public MyCellRenderer() {
setOpaque(true);
public Component getListCellRendererComponent(
JList list,
Object value,
int index,
boolean isSelected,
boolean cellHasFocus)
setText(value.toString());
setBackground(isSelected ? Color.red : Color.white);
setForeground(isSelected ? Color.white : Color.black);
return this;
in the method getListCellRendererComponent you get your hashtable as object parameter,get the visible text from the hashtable and call setText (..)
you can also make a combined String with value and text
and take only the visible text in the renderer(this solution is not so bombastic as before)