Re: How to add elements to a JList without preventing refresh

Do you REALLY plan to make your user have to scroll through a JList with a
MILLION entries in it? That seems like a very poor design to me. Couldn't
you break the entries into categories so that the user can "drill down" to
it in stages?

For instance, if I wanted my user to choose from a million town or city
names from all over the world, I would NOT simply present a million names of
towns and cities: I'd let them choose the continent, then the country, then
the state or province, and then the town; that would keep each list, except
possibly the last one, reasonably brief.

Can you do something like this in your user interface? Otherwise, I think
your user is going to be VERY unhappy with your GUI design. Your job might
get a little harder if you have to present multiple lists in the appropriate
sequence but each list should be a lot more manageable than having to deal
with a million-element list.

Rhino


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