Having trouble with combo box.

Question

What im trying to do is put a string array into this combo box called jComboBoxParts how do i make it show? Right now when i load it, all i see is "Item1..."Item2...etc". Here is my code.
String[] partsString = { "oil can", "windshield", "tires", "v6 Cylinder head", "fuse"};
JComboBox[] jComboBoxParts = new JComboBox[partsString.length];
for(int i=0; i < partsString.length; i++)
jComboBoxParts[i] = new *JComboBox(*partsString);
with the bolded work i get an error. Please help.

Answer 1

eva21 wrote:
What im trying to do is put a string array into this combo box called jComboBoxParts how do i make it show? Right now when i load it, all i see is "Item1..."Item2...etc". Here is my code.
String[] partsString = { "oil can", "windshield", "tires", "v6 Cylinder head", "fuse"};
JComboBox[] jComboBoxParts = new JComboBox[partsString.length];
for(int i=0; i < partsString.length; i++)
jComboBoxParts[i] = new *JComboBox(*partsString);
with the bolded work i get an error. Please help.
That's ugly in so many ways...
This:
JComboBox[] jComboBoxParts = new JComboBox[partsString.length];does not do what you think it does. Instead, it creates an array of JComboBoxes initialized to the length of elements in your string array. So instead of a single JComboBox capable of holding 5 elements (which is what you were trying to do), you created 5 JComboBoxes capable of holding n elements.
What you want to do is something like this:
import javax.swing.*;
class Demo extends JFrame {
  private JComboBox box;
  public Demo() {
    initComponents();
  private void initComponents() {
    String[] items = { "oil can", "windshield", "tires", "v6 cylinder head", "fuse" };
    box = new JComboBox(items);
    this.getContentPane().add(box);
    this.pack();
    this.setSize(200, 60);
    this.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
    this.setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    this.setTitle("Combox Box Demo");
  public static void main(String[] argv) {
    SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
      public void run() {
        new Demo().setVisible(true);
}Another alternative, if you don't have the array of strings available when you instantiate your JComboBox, you could do something like this:
String items = { "oil can", "brakes", "windshield", "tail light", "something else", "blah", "more blah" };
for( String item : items )
  myJComboBox.addItem(item);