I want to store and retrieve a key value associated with the comboBox. I have used only getSelectedIndex() and getSelectedItem(). This will not help my purpose as I have to get a unique key value assocaiated with the item.
Example Scenario :
India - 10, China - 15, Russia - 18. Here if 'India' is the comboBox item then '10' is its key. Likewise, 15 for china and 18 for Russia.
When India is selected I need to get the value as 10, if china 15, if Russia 18.
How can I achieve this in Lwuit 1.5. could you guys guide me to do this.
I think that you must map the values with the items in the ComboBox
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You can do this in some different ways.
You can do it with a Hashtable
for example. You will need to make the proper castings to get the value in the data type what you want.
ComboBox combo;
//Here create the hash
Hashtable h = new Hashtable();
h.put("India", "10");
h.put("China", "15");
h.put("Russia", "18");
//create the combo
Vector v = new Vector();
v.addElement("India");
v.addElement("China");
v.addElement("Russia");
combo = new ComboBox(v);
combo.addActionListerner(new ActionListener ae){
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae){
String selected = (String) combo.getSelectedItem();
//get the value
String value = (String) h.get(selected);
}
});