Question

I am having trouble refreshing the data inside the JComboBox.

There is a button “Create” which has ActionListener, which adds the item to JComboBox.

But the changes are not reflected in the GUI: I still don’t see the new added item.

repaint() doesn’t help.

Update: Here is a (almost) full GUI code:

public class Main extends JFrame implements ActionListener
{
    static Connection conn;
    static PreparedStatement ps = null;
    static ResultSet res;

    static Statement sta;

private final static int ITERATION_NUMBER = 1000;

public void GUI () throws SQLException {
    setBounds(0, 0, 320, 240);
    addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter(){
    public void windowClosing(WindowEvent we){
        close(ps);
        close(res);
        close(conn);
        System.exit(0);
        }
    });
    setMinimumSize(new Dimension(320, 240));
    setResizable(false);

    this.setTitle("Accounts");

    JPanel panel = new JPanel();
    GridLayout2 GL = new GridLayout2(4,3);
    GL.setHgap(10);
    panel.setLayout(GL);

    Font font = new Font("Serif", Font.BOLD, 20);
    Font font2 = new Font("Courier New", Font.BOLD, 16);

    JLabel label1 = new JLabel("Username");
    JLabel label2 = new JLabel("Password");
    JLabel label3 = new JLabel("Controls");

    label1.setFont(font2);
    label2.setFont(font2);
    label3.setFont(font2);

    final JTextField username = new JTextField();
    final JTextField password1 = new JPasswordField();
    final JTextField password2 = new JPasswordField();

    final JComboBox userBox1 = new JComboBox();
    final JComboBox userBox2 = new JComboBox();

    JButton create = new JButton("CREATE");

    create.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
        {
            try {
                createUser(conn, username.getText(), password1.getText());
userBox1.addItem(username.getText());
                userBox2.addItem(username.getText());
            } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException
                    | UnsupportedEncodingException | SQLException e1) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e1.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    });



    userBox1.removeAllItems();
    userBox2.removeAllItems();

    res = (ResultSet) sta.executeQuery("SELECT LOGIN FROM ACCOUNTS");

    String temp;

    for (int i=0; res.next(); i++) {
        temp = (String)res.getString("LOGIN");
        userBox1.addItem(temp);
        userBox2.addItem(temp);
    }

    panel.add(label1);
    panel.add(label2);
    panel.add(label3);

    panel.add(username);
    panel.add(password1);
    panel.add(create);

    panel.add(userBox1);
    panel.add(password2);
    panel.add(modify);

    panel.add(userBox2);
    panel.add(new JLabel(""));
    panel.add(delete);

    add(panel);

    setVisible(true);
}

SOLUTION: Adding password1.setText(“”); just after “createUser” solved the problem! That’s strange, maybe it somehow refreshed the GUI…

Answer 1

• you have to add ComboBoxModel to the JComboBox,

• there you can to add / remove / modify the value,

• events implemented in the API refreshing your view (JComboBox) without moreover code lines

• all updates must be done on Event Dispatch Thread

EDIT

maybe I missread your question, if you want to add JComboBox to the already visible GUI, then you have to call (as last code lines and with success only once for one Container)

myContainer.revalidate() // for JFrame up to Java7 is there only validate()
myContainer.repaint()

(sorry @timaschew)