Question

Given an Item that has been appended to a Form, whats the best way to find out what index that item is at on the Form?

Form.append(Item) will give me the index its initially added at, but if I later insert items before that the index will be out of sync.

Answer 1

This was the best I could come up with:

private int getItemIndex(Item item, Form form) {     for(int i = 0, size = form.size(); i < size; i++) {         if(form.get(i).equals(item)) {             return i;         }     }     return -1; } 

I haven’t actually tested this but it should work, I just don’t like having to enumerate every item but then there should never be that many so I guess its ok.