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/** Define enum class that will popuplate your combo box */');
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public enum E_ComboBoxEnum
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("Item 1"),
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("Item 2"),
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("Item 3");
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private final String _displayName;
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/** constructor */');
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/** overrides method toString() in java.lang.Enum class */');
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public String toString
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return _displayName;
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} // end enum E_ComboBoxEnum');
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/** whatever class contains the JComboBox object, could be JFrame, JDialog, etc */');
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public class ComboBoxGUI
extends javax.
swing.
JDialog {');
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private javax.
swing.
JComboBox _myComboBox;
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public void createComboBox
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JComboBox();
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setModel(new javax.
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DefaultComboBoxModel(E_ExpirationDateIntervals.
values()));
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}');
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/** the combo box will now display the Strings defined in the E_ComboBoxEnum class, in the order that they were defined. */');
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/** _myComboBox.getSelectedItem() will return an E_ComboBoxEnum object (well technically a generic object that can be cast into an E_ComboBoxEnum object) */');
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} // end class ComboBoxGUI');
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