JComboBox Selection?

[Matt Hansen]

I have a JComboBox that contains user defined objects that contain an equals() method. When I create the combo box I add a few objects, then I try to call setSelectedItem(aObject). This does not select the item. The text in the combo box is empty. When I click on it I can see that the item I tried to select is highlighted but it is not selected.
My current workaround is to iterate through the items and find the index of the one I want to select. Then, I use setSelcetedIndex which works fine.
Is this a Swing bug? Does anyone know why this might not work?

[Wilfried LAURENT]

Can you describe more explicitely your problem? I have tried it and it works fine :
....
JComboBox combo = new JComboBox();
// The toString method of J returns the init argument
J toto=new J("toto");
J titi=new J("titi" );
combo.addItem(titi);
combo.addItem(toto);
combo.setSelectedItem(toto);
....
And I see "toto" in the text field of the combo.
W.

[This message has been edited by Wilfried LAURENT (edited September 28, 2001).]

[Matt Hansen]

I do basically the same thing

JComboBox combo = new JComboBox();
object1 = new myObject("one");
object2 = new myObject("two");
combo.addItem(object1);
combo.addItem(object2);
combo.setSelectedItem(new myObject("two"));

I overrode the equals method so that it compares them by the string passed in to the constructor. That doesn't work. But this does:

JComboBox combo = new JComboBox();
object1 = new myObject("one");
object2 = new myObject("two");
combo.addItem(object1);
combo.addItem(object2);
for (int i = 0; i < combo.getItemCount(); i++) {
  if (((myObject)combo.getItemAt(i)).equals(new myObject("two")) {
    combo.setSelectedIndex(i);
  }
}

[Wilfried LAURENT]

>object2 = new myObject("two");
>combo.setSelectedItem(new myObject("two"));
No surprise here. object2 is a different object from new myObject("two"). These are two different references. So in the second line, you try to select an object that does not belong to the combo box.
>I overrode the equals method so that it compares them by the >string passed in to the constructor.
This should have worked. Did you override the equals method of the myObject class? Have a look at the JComboBox (probably in the ComboBoxModel) source code to see how this is done. It should help.
W.

[Wilfried LAURENT]

>object2 = new myObject("two");
>combo.setSelectedItem(new myObject("two"));
No surprise here. object2 is a different object from new myObject("two"). These are two different references. So in the second line, you try to select an object that does not belong to the combo box.
>I overrode the equals method so that it compares them by the >string passed in to the constructor.
This should have worked. Did you override the equals method of the myObject class? Have a look at the JComboBox (probably in the ComboBoxModel) source code to see how this is done. It should help.
W.