Using JComboBox as a search box

Question

Im using a JComboBox to search a query from a sql database. Here is my code.

private void srKeyTyped(java.awt.event.KeyEvent evt){
    sr.remove         


        

Answer 1

Use an ActionListener instead of the looking for the key press. When a combobox's selection is edited it will fire an ActionEvent when the editing is done.

When you get this part working, you should move this logic off to another thread and populate the combobox's items when it returns. Otherwise your UI will hang while the SQL query occurs.