When a JComboBox is added to a JPanel, the elements of the ComboBox get forced into a scroll mode instead of the complete list being displayed. In order to select an element, one has to scroll, bring the item into view and then select. This is a bit inconvenient. Seems like the size of the ComboBox list is clipped to fit in the size of the panel. Is there a fix/workaround to make the complete list of elements appear without the scroll pane?

Attached is an example to illustrate the problem.

jocelyn.charbonneau@Eng 2000-12-11
What we really want is the popup (or pull down) menu from the JComboBox to show
outside a JDialog. As it stand, the JComboBox pull down menu will be clipped to
a JDialog or JFrame interior boundary. Setting default light weight popup to false does not help, as one would expect.

Note that on a PC running Windows, the behavior is as expected, that is if
default light weight is false, the pull down window is shown outside the
JDialog.

[pf, 12/12/2000]
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