Event handling between JComboBox & JCheckBox

Question

Hi.
My problem is that when i click on the JCheckBox object, the code (i have) also executes the condition for JComboBox object. I assume there is a very simple solution, but i have yet to find it.
This is the code i'm using:
     public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent e){
          if(qcmCheckBox.isSelected()){
               System.out.println("checkbox selected");
          if(e.getStateChange() == ItemEvent.SELECTED){
               System.out.println("combo selected " + comboBoxOptions.getSelectedIndex());
     }My problem is, i think, that the e.getStateChange() is always returning true. I just haven't figured out a way to 'single out' when the JComboBox is selected.

Answer 1

thanks for the tip, but that didn't exactly work.
these are my steps:
select second drop down option (out of 3)
select checkbox
deselect checkbox
old output
combo selected1
qcm selected
combo selected1new output (using instanceof)
combo selected 1
combo selected 1
checkbox selected
combo selected 1
combo selected 1here's my code:
// setting up vars
private JCheckBox checkBox = new JCheckBox();
private final String comboNames[] = {"Option 1", "Option 2", "Option 3"};
private JComboBox comboBoxOptions = new JComboBox(comboNames);
// combo box
comboBoxOptions.addItemListener(this);
// checkbox
checkBox.addItemListener(this);
// event handler
public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent e){
     if(checkBox.isSelected()){
          System.out.println("checkbox selected");
     //if(comboBoxOptions instanceof JComboBox){ // the suggested alternative
     if(e.getStateChange() == ItemEvent.SELECTED){
          System.out.println("combo selected " + comboBoxOptions.getSelectedIndex());
}For some reason, the suggested answer gives me duplicate entries for the dropdown and it still gives me duplicate entries when i click on the checkbox.
Again, what i'm trying to do is just get the checkbox not to execute the 2nd if statement "if(e.getStateChange() == ItemEvent.SELECTED){"
I think the statement "e.getStateChange()" is returning everything true because its an event happening but i don't know a way to single the checkbox event.
I would appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks.
sijis