combobox key value pair using java

          key value pair combobox example

step 1: Create a class with two variables , key and value

public class customcombo {
String key;
int value;
public customcombo(String key, int value) {
this.key= key;
this.value = value;
}
public String getKey() {
return key;
}
public void setKey(String key) {
this.key= key;
}
public int getValue() {
return value;
}
public void setValue(int value) {
this.value = value;
}
@Override
public String toString(){
return key;
}
}


Step2: set combobox model(static or dynamic)


case 1: static data ,do the following way

Object[] items=new Object[]{new customcombo("INDIA",1),new customcombo("UAE",2),new customcombo("USA",3)};
javax.swing.JComboBox jComboBox1 = new javax.swing.JComboBox();
DefaultComboBoxModel mod=new DefaultComboBoxModel(items);
jComboBox1.setModel(mod);

case 2: dynamic(database) value , do the following way

Object[] items = null;
ResultSet rs = st.executeQuery("select id,country from tb");
if (rs.next()) {
rs.last();
items = new customcombo[rs.getRow()];
rs.beforeFirst();
}
int i = 0;
while (rs.next()) {
items[i++] = new customcombo(Integer.parseInt(rs.getString(1)), rs.getString(2));
}


step 3: When program run ,combobox display name(key). To get value of the display name, use the following code


customcombo ob=(customcombo) jComboBox1.getSelectedItem();
Now you get both value
int val=ob.value;
String country=ob.key;

7 comments:

niko said...

Thank you very much!

Dhananjaya said...

Nice... It solved my problem. Thanks a lot..!

Unknown said...

Hello, I wanted to thank you so much for posting this. I wasn't able to find an optimum solution to my app, but now I finally got it using your example. God bless you!

Unknown said...

I think this had a problem in the Step 2 -> case 2. Need to invert the key value order to run.

Unknown said...

Thank you so much for this. New to Java. After looking at many many solutions, this worked like a charm. If I can request, for others that might use this. In the Dynamic(database) option Step 2. The following lines need to be added.

javax.swing.JComboBox jComboBox1 = new javax.swing.JComboBox();
DefaultComboBoxModel mod=new DefaultComboBoxModel(items);
jComboBox1.setModel(mod);

THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN.

Unknown said...

Thanku Very much , it solved my issue, but how to retrive values and names on any event???

Bruce Maiga said...

Thanks u so much, i ve been other methods without succes. Yours is working well; good job!!!

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