How to keep the popup menu of a JComboBox open on populating it ?
- by Stormshadow
I have a JComboBox on my Panel. One of the popup menu items is 'More' and when I click that I fetch more menu items and add them to the existing list. After this, I wish to keep the popup menu open so that the user realizes that more items have been fetched however, the popup closes. The event handler code I am using is as follows
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{
if (e.getSource() == myCombo) {
JComboBox selectedBox = (JComboBox) e.getSource();
String item = (String) selectedBox.getSelectedItem();
if (item.toLowerCase().equals("more")) {
fetchItems(selectedBox);
}
selectedBox.showPopup();
selectedBox.setPopupVisible(true);
}
}
private void fetchItems(JComboBox box)
{
box.removeAllItems();
/* code to fetch items and store them in the Set<String> items */
for (String s : items) {
box.addItem(s);
}
}
I do not understand why the showPopup() and setPopupVisible() methods are not functioning as expected.
