Problems in editable Combo Box

Hello,
I have an editable Combo Box and an action listener associated with the Combo Box. I also have a "Store" button that stores the edited item in the Combo Box and an action listener associated with the button too. After I have selected an item in the Combo Box and edited it, I press the "Store Button". Instead of going to the Store_button_action performed method, it goes to the ComboBox_action performed method and after running it, it stops. Which means it does not run the Store_button_action performed method at all.
Another thing I have noticed is that when ever I select any item from this Combo Box it gets highlighted in blue, is there some way around this? I want the cursor to be blinking at the beginning/end of the selected Item.
Thanks and regards,
Ibha

Hi,
you can use a Textfield as editor component for a ComboBox:
create a class implementing javax.swing.ComboBoxEditor with an attribute type Textfield. This TextField uses your PlainDocument.
In getEditorComponent() you return the TextField.
Hope this helps,
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I have found the correct way of doing.
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