technical design problem with 2 dependend dropdown fields

[frag]

Hi,

I have some problems to find a good solution for this problem:

There are some values in a JComboBox and depending on the value choosen in this box another JComboBox has to display values that belong to the selected value in the first box.

What do you think would be the best structure to store the values in (of course with the dependencies)... a vector, a linked list a custom object or something completely different?

Any help and a short example highly appreciate

cheers

frag

patrick.metz@epost.de

 

[frag]

Would a hashtable be a good solution ?

patrick.metz@epost.de

 

[sedj]

To be fair, whatever *collection* you use - Vector, ArrayList, Enumeration, Hash* etc, compared to the processing time you use when utilising Swing will far outweigh the processing time semantics of a small collection object (unless you are processing thousands of entries).

Use whatever object you feel comfortable with - worrying about which implemetation will yield the most efficient memory/time saving will gain you only milliseconds of processing time, but will cost hours of testing headaches !

 

[frag]

Yeah, I guess you are right... use Swing and it doesn't matter how fast your code is, Swing will slow down your application anyway.

I had some kind of blackout yesterday (don't know how to say it better in english). Just couldn't think of a way to implement it.

patrick.metz@epost.de