Trying to write a Listener on a CheckBox to change the Model of a ComboBox

Question

I am trying to change the list that appears in a ComboBox dynamically based on if a CheckBox is selected or not. I have multiple CheckBoxes and ComboBoxes being created in a loop based on a variable assigned at creation. Every tutorial i have seen writes out a listener that explicitly defines the checkbox instance but in my case i don't acctually know. My checkboxes are in an array of checkboxes as are the comboboxes as they are being created at runtime. Any help would be much apreciated this issue has been with me for two days now.

Answer 1

here is a snippit of my code in how i was implementing this:
int numButton = 17; //this is for testing only, this variable is set from another class normally
// these variables are defined private elsewhere in the class
JCheckBox PlayerByeCheck[] = new JCheckBox[numButton + 1];
JCheckBox PlayerHomeCheck[] = new JCheckBox[numButton + 1];
boolean PlayerOnBye[] = new boolean[numButton + 1];
for (int i = 1; i <= numButton; i++) {
         PlayerByeCheck[i] = new JCheckBox();
     PlayerHomeCheck[i] = new JCheckBox();
     PlayerOnBye[i] = false;
// more code here for building the gui it is not important for this problem
// code to build the list starts here
for (int i = 1; i <= numButton; i++) {
     ((TableLayout)PlayerRosterPanel.getLayout()).insertRow(1, TableLayout.PREFERRED);
         PlayerByeCheck.setOpaque(false);
     PlayerByeCheck[i].addItemListener(this);
     PlayerByeCheck[i].setName("PlayerByeCheck" + i);
     PlayerRosterPanel.add(PlayerByeCheck[i], new TableLayoutConstraints(2, 1, 2, 1, TableLayoutConstraints.CENTER, TableLayoutConstraints.FULL));
//the comboox that i want to change
//---- PlayerTeamSelect1 ----
     if (PlayerOnBye[i] = true) {
          PlayerTeamSelect[i].setModel(new DefaultComboBoxModel(new String[] {
               "ARI",
               "ATL",
               "BAL",
          "BUF",
     "BYE"
          PlayerTeamSelect[i].setSelectedItem("BYE");
     } else {
          PlayerTeamSelect[i].setModel(new DefaultComboBoxModel(new String[] {
               "ARI",
               "ATL",
               "BAL",
               "BUF",
               "CAR",
          "BYE"
     PlayerTeamSelect[i].setOpaque(false);
     PlayerRosterPanel.add(PlayerTeamSelect[i], new TableLayoutConstraints(4, 1, 4, 1, TableLayoutConstraints.FULL, TableLayoutConstraints.FULL));
//more gui code here method gets closed
//Item Action Listener starts here this is where i am having the problem                         
public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent e) {
     Object source = e.getItem();
     if (source == PlayerByeCheck[1])
     int select = e.getStateChange();
          if (select == ItemEvent.SELECTED)
          PlayerOnBye[1] = true;
PlayerRosterPanel.repaint();
//repaint the window i think can't get the listener to work to see if this is the right way to do this
//i doubt it is
I have tried several different ways to write the listener, the example in the code above is following the java swing tutorial by explicitly defining the checkbox. I have tried to write the listener as i am creating the checkbox, which doesn't seem to work or i am wrting it wrong, which is entirely possible. Once the listener sets the value i think it should repaint the screen but i am sure that that is wrong right now as well. As my hunch is the repaint will reset the checkbox to DESELCTED the default value. I will come to that issue once i figure out how to get the listener working. Ideally i want to be able to set the listener for the checkboxes regardless as to how many there are. As stated above i am generating a list of checkboxes, comboboxes and other fields based on a variable that is defined in one of my objects. If the user selects checkbox 3 than combobox 3 should be changed, and the others should not. if the user selects all the checkboxes than all the comboboxes change.
thanks for any help. Still plugging along on it trying to figure this one out.