Interface JComboBox.KeySelectionManager

Enclosing class:: JComboBox<E>

public static interface JComboBox.KeySelectionManager

The interface that defines a KeySelectionManager. To qualify as a KeySelectionManager, the class needs to implement the method that identifies the list index given a character and the combo box data model.

Since:: 1.2

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`int`	`selectionForKey(char aKey, ComboBoxModel<?> aModel)`	Given `aKey` and the model, returns the row that should become selected.

Method Details

selectionForKey

int selectionForKey(char aKey, ComboBoxModel<?> aModel)

Given aKey and the model, returns the row that should become selected. Return -1 if no match was found.

Parameters:: aKey - a char value, usually indicating a keyboard key that was pressed; aModel - a ComboBoxModel -- the component's data model, containing the list of selectable items
Returns:: an int equal to the selected row, where 0 is the first item and -1 is none.

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