Sizing a JList

[macgre]

I am dynamically adding items to a JList (using setListData) but only want 5 to show at a time. I have tried using setVisibleRowCount(5) but it doesn't work. I even tried some Sys outs to see if the method worked and sure enough it tells me that the visible row count is 5 but I still have a JList that is more that 5?!?

Code can be made available on request.

 

[jfryer]

you might try

Dimension getPreferredScrollableViewportSize()

Computes the size of the viewport needed to display visibleRowCount rows.

Honestly I have no idea if this will work, but it looks like what you may be after. ----------------------------------------
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[macgre]

Great minds must think alike I was investigating the same and came up with this.

JScrollPane sp = new JScrollPane(this.variables = new JList());
this.varList = new Vector();
this.variables.setVisibleRowCount(5);
this.add(sp);

The problem was that setVisibleRowCount only works when the JList is contained within a JScrollPane, it is simply ignored otherwise!