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1. Help! Need to dynamically create JCheckBoxes    coderanch.com

I need to dynamically create an unspecified number of JCheckBoxes, giving one a unique static value. Because I don't know ahead of time how many JCheckBoxes I'll have to create, I thought that I could use one JCheckBox object and (in a loop as many times as necessary) give it unique settings and then adding the (hopefully) unique checkbox to the ...

3. create dynamic checkboxes    coderanch.com

Hi, I am trying to create dynamic checkboxes as below. It works. But how do I check the status of each checkboxes. My exact doubt is how do I refer to dynamically created checkboxes. Please see my code below: I want to modify so that I can refer to each dynamically created checkboxes. JLabel test = new JLabel(dirName); dynamicPanel.add(test); dynamicPanel.validate(); Iterator ...

4. Newb question - repainting dynamically added Checkbox    coderanch.com

When the item is added it is not visible within the container until I resize the container. I tried calling repaint() on both the added component and the container but still doesn't update the visibility. I am rusty with swing right now. I know this is something silly, can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks

5. Need to dynamically add checkBoxes in a GUI    coderanch.com

What have you got so far and where are you stuck? Usually this is the way its done (in pseudo code) 1) Define parent panel. Set appropriate layout to the parent 2) Create the child components 3) Add the children to the parent 4) After adding all the children, call parent.revalidate() and parent.repaint()