Thread: JComboBox Issue

Look at these two lines:

JComboBox comboDest1 = (JComboBox) event.getSource();
JComboBox comboAccom1 =(JComboBox) event.getSource();

That's not going to work. The getSource() function returns the *single* component (in this case JComboBox) that resulted in the ActionEvent. In this case, it's whatever JComboBox you made the selection in.

You have to refer directly to the two JComboBoxes instead of trying to go through the getSource() function. You can do that by either passing them into the ActionListener class, or since you're using an anonymous inner class, referring to them directly. Note that with the latter approach, you'll have to make the variables final.

Read the tutorial on anonymous classes: Anonymous Classes (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Classes and Objects)

How would you use those variables normally? Do the same thing in the anonymous class.

Strange. after deleting those two lines and making the variables final it works but only when i input the accom1 combobox first and then the dest1 combobox after.

Edit: after reading through that link I'm no more closer in understand how it's done do you have any other links in more layman's terms? or even a youtube video.

Here is an example:

final JButton button = new JButton("Click me");
 
button.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
   public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
      button.setText("You clicked me.");
   }
 
});

This code creates a JButton whose text changes when you click it. It uses an anonymous inner class to create an ActionListener, and inside that ActionListener, it refers directly to the button variable. It's able to do that because the button variable is final.

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