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    Default Re: ActionListener inside another ActionListener

    I don't understand why do you need to nest an ActionEvent? When the user hits the Submit JButton, the ActionListener code just needs to retrieve the selected value from the JComboBox

    (...and please read the nomenclature I use closely - we are programmers and our brains often work like compilers - meaning things like "combo box" and actionEvent quite often lead to confusion, resulting in a 'cannot find symbol' error)

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    Default Re: ActionListener inside another ActionListener

    So i want to search the 'type' the user has selected in the database once they have clicked on the 'searchButton'.
    Then why not just get the value of jTypeDDB?

    if (e.getSource() == searchButton) {
        String type = jTypeDDB.getSelectedItem().toString();
    }

    ...and please read the note in post #2. Combo Box != JComboBox. Like I said, using shorthand for class names can lead to confusion. So why even leave the possibility of confusion?

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    Default Re: ActionListener inside another ActionListener

    Quote Originally Posted by kpat View Post
    Thank you for your quick reply copeg.

    That works if i only have 1 JCombobox but i have 4 JCombobox's how would implement that for 4 JCombobox's. I've tried the code for each one but it doesn't gel.

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    That works for as many JComboBox's as you have, provided you use the appropriate references to the object to get the selected value.

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    Thanks a lot copeg it looks like its working how its suppose to.

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