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#1: Oct 7 '08
hi all

i face problem reading the JComboBox's selected item to a string variable.
i'm trying like this;

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  1. String str=cmbname.getSelectedItem();
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its says error.
so whats the way to read the selected item.


thanks chel-1

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#2: Oct 7 '08

re: read value from combobox.

If you read the Javadocs for that class you will see that that method returns an Object.
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