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Old October 7th, 2008, 05:20 AM
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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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Old October 7th, 2008, 07:18 AM
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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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