Pad JComboBox items with <>
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Posted By:   Rami_Abramson
Posted On:   Tuesday, July 16, 2002 09:04 AM

sorry for the previous question. Hello, We get a list of objects to display in a ComboBox, and some of them we want to pad with the <> characters just for the display (they are predefined entries). The issue that rises is that if the item selected is one of these we want to retrieve it without the <>. For example, the combo contains: AAA BBB ZZZ and is selected. Now how do we succeed that the combo.getSelectedItem() returns the original item without the <> - 'None'. thank you, Rami    More>>
			

			sorry for the previous question.
			

			

			Hello,
			

			

			We get a list of objects to display in a ComboBox, and some of them we want to pad with the
			<> characters just for the display (they are predefined entries).
			

			The issue that rises is that if the item selected is one of these
			we want to retrieve it without the
			<>.
			

			

			For example, the combo contains:
			

			

			

			AAA
			

			BBB
			

			ZZZ
			

			

			and
			is selected.
			

			Now how do we succeed that the combo.getSelectedItem() returns the original item without the
			<> - 'None'.
			

			

			thank you,
			

			

			Rami
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Re: Pad JComboBox items with &lt;&gt;

Posted By:   Axel_Richter  
Posted On:   Wednesday, July 17, 2002 04:28 AM

If there are always only 1 "<" before and 1 ">" after the items, you can try: 


combochoice = combo.getSelectedItem();
if (combochoice.startsWith("<"))
    combochoice=combochoice.substring(1, combochoice.length()-1);
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