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Choices

One of the problems with Check Boxes and Check Box Groups is that they take up a lot of space in your interface. If you have a lot of choices, it may be better to present them in a Choice control (similar to the SELECT widget in HTML FORM programming)

import java.awt.*;

public class ChoiceExample
  {
  public static void main(String[] args)
    {
    Frame baseFrame = new Frame();
    baseFrame.setLayout(new GridLayout(4,1));
    baseFrame.reshape(10,10,200,200);
    baseFrame.setTitle("Choice Example");

    Choice choice = new Choice();
    choice.addItem("Selena");
    choice.addItem("Eric");
    choice.addItem("Mark");


    baseFrame.add(choice);

    baseFrame.show();
    }
  }

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Selena Sol contributes to the JavaBoutique's Introduction to Java. Selena currently works for Barclays Capital in London, one of the leading global investment banks in Europe and has worked as a software developer for the National Center for Human Genome research, Microline Software, Neuron Data, and Electric Eye in Singapore. Selena is perhaps best-known for creating the Public Domain Web Script Archive (Extropia) and writing several books on Web Programming (Perl, CGI, Java).
Email: selena@extropia.com