Section 12.12 JList
• A JList
displays a series of items from which the user may select one or more items. Class JList
supports single-selection lists (p. 508) and multiple-selection lists.
• When the user clicks an item in a JList
, a ListSelectionEvent
(p. 508) occurs. JList
method addListSelectionListener
(p. 510) registers a ListSelectionListener
(p. 510) for a JList
’s selection events. A ListSelectionListener
of package javax.swing.event(
p. 492) must implement method valueChanged
.
• JList
method setVisibleRowCount
(p. 510) specifies the number of visible items in the list.
• JList
method setSelectionMode
(p. 510) specifies a list’s selection mode.
• A JList
can be attached to a JScrollPane
(p. 510) to provide a scrollbar for the JList
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