Articles : JavaBoutique's Introduction to Java :
Components :

Contents
Introduction
Static Text with Label
Text Entry Components
Check Boxes and Check Box Groups
Choices
Lists
Menus and Menu Bars
Scrollbars, Buttons, and Canvases

Lists

You will recall that in the SELECT widget in HTML programming, you could select how many choices were visible at any one time using the SIZE attribute. Well, since the Choice widget does not have such an attribute, you need to use a different component if you want that functionality. In the JDK, the List component is used for such circumstances.

import java.awt.*;

public class ListExample
  {
  public static void main(String[] args)
    {
    Frame baseFrame = new Frame();
    baseFrame.reshape(10,10,200,200);
    baseFrame.setTitle("List Example");

    List list = new List(3, true);
    list.addItem("Selena");
    list.addItem("Eric");
    list.addItem("Mark");
    list.addItem("Bob Frog");

    baseFrame.add(list);

    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