Class ItemEvent

public class ItemEvent
extends AWTEvent

A semantic event which indicates that an item was selected or deselected. This high-level event is generated by an ItemSelectable object (such as a List) when an item is selected or deselected by the user. The event is passed to every ItemListener object which registered to receive such events using the component's addItemListener method.

The object that implements the ItemListener interface gets this ItemEvent when the event occurs. The listener is spared the details of processing individual mouse movements and mouse clicks, and can instead process a "meaningful" (semantic) event like "item selected" or "item deselected".

An unspecified behavior will be caused if the id parameter of any particular ItemEvent instance is not in the range from ITEM_FIRST to ITEM_LAST.

The stateChange of any ItemEvent instance takes one of the following values:

• ItemEvent.SELECTED
• ItemEvent.DESELECTED

Assigning the value different from listed above will cause an unspecified behavior.

Fields

ITEM_FIRST

public static final int ITEM_FIRST

The first number in the range of ids used for item events.

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ITEM_LAST

public static final int ITEM_LAST

The last number in the range of ids used for item events.

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ITEM_STATE_CHANGED

public static final int ITEM_STATE_CHANGED

This event id indicates that an item's state changed.

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SELECTED

public static final int SELECTED

This state-change value indicates that an item was selected.

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DESELECTED

public static final int DESELECTED

This state-change-value indicates that a selected item was deselected.

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Constructors

ItemEvent

public ItemEvent(ItemSelectable source,
                 int id,
                 Object item,
                 int stateChange)

Parameters:

source - The ItemSelectable object that originated the event

id - The integer that identifies the event type. For information on allowable values, see the class description for ItemEvent

item - An object -- the item affected by the event

stateChange - An integer that indicates whether the item was selected or deselected. For information on allowable values, see the class description for ItemEvent

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if source is null

See Also:

getItemSelectable(), AWTEvent.getID(), getStateChange()

Methods

getItemSelectable

public ItemSelectable getItemSelectable()

Returns the originator of the event.

Returns:

the ItemSelectable object that originated the event.

getItem

public Object getItem()

Returns the item affected by the event.

Returns:

the item (object) that was affected by the event

getStateChange

public int getStateChange()

Returns the type of state change (selected or deselected).

Returns:

an integer that indicates whether the item was selected or deselected

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SELECTED, DESELECTED

paramString

public String paramString()

Returns a parameter string identifying this item event. This method is useful for event-logging and for debugging.

Overrides:

paramString in class AWTEvent

Returns:

a string identifying the event and its attributes