Java Swing Combobox removeAllItems calling ItemStateChanged also?

Question

My code is quite simple actually. I saw a simple and similar code was from this article.

At first, I have 1 combobox. I have a listener on it called itemStateChanged(). My purpose to add into this listener is that; "to execute some code when user click (select) an item from its dropbox".

Cmb_ItemCategory = new javax.swing.JComboBox();

Cmb_ItemCategory.setModel(new javax.swing.DefaultComboBoxModel(new String[] { "Loading..." }));

Cmb_ItemCategory.addItemListener(new java.awt.event.ItemListener() {
    public void itemStateChanged(java.awt.event.ItemEvent evt) {
        Cmb_ItemCategoryItemStateChanged(evt);
    }
});

private void Cmb_ItemCategoryItemStateChanged(java.awt.event.ItemEvent evt) {

        if(evt.getStateChange() == java.awt.event.ItemEvent.SELECTED){
        System.err.println("Sombody click or change my model content");
        }

    }

Behind the code, I grab some data, and then calling a method of removeAllItems() . And then I set a new Model (from new data) into it.

-- at another line of code ---
Cmb_ItemCategory.removeAllItems();
Cmb_ItemCategory.setModel(newModel);

I juz realized that my itemStateChanged() is called when i do the removeAllItem() method. called once.

So, How to make it only called once user Click (select) only AND not when removeAllItems() called?

it similar to this article. But it's not removingItems case. CMIIW.

Answer 1

Here check this code out, this works flawlessly, might be you doing something wrong where you calling removeAllItems() :

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class ComboState 
{
    private void createAndDisplayGUI()
    {
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("Combo State Testing : ");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);

        final JComboBox cbox = new JComboBox();
        cbox.addItem("One");
        cbox.addItem("Two");
        cbox.addItem("Three");
        cbox.addItem("Four");
        cbox.addItemListener(new ItemListener()
        {
            public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent ie)
            {
                if (ie.getStateChange() == ItemEvent.SELECTED)
                {
                    System.out.println("Item Selected is : " + ie.getItem());
                }
                /*else
                {
                    System.out.println("I am called for other reasons.");
                }*/
            }
        });

        /*
         * Click me to remove JComboBox's items.
         */
        JButton removeButton = new JButton("REMOVE");
        removeButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener()
        {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae)
            {
                cbox.removeAllItems();
            }
        });

        frame.add(cbox, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        frame.add(removeButton, BorderLayout.PAGE_END);
        frame.pack();
        frame.setLocationByPlatform(true);
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String... args)
    {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable()
        {
            public void run()
            {
                new ComboState().createAndDisplayGUI();
            }
        });
    }
}