Re: Deprecated hide and show for Choice

From: Ryan Stewart (zzanNOtozz_at_gSPAMo.com)
Date: 02/29/04

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    Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 18:27:48 -0600

    "Doug van Vianen" <courses@shaw.ca> wrote in message
    news:Vp60c.621937$JQ1.143180@pd7tw1no...
    > Hi,
    >
    > I am using Choice to provide a dropdown menu in an Applet. I create the
    > Choice and then need to hide it until it is needed and then show it. I use
    > c.hide() and c.show() where 'c' is the choice.
    >
    > This works fine except that when I use javac to compile the code I get the
    > message that I am using a deprecated API. That is, hide() and show() for
    > choices (and presumably other items) is no longer used. I have tried doing
    a
    > search to find the new way of doing this but do not get any useful
    results.
    >
    > Can someone tell me how to hide and show a choice dropdown menu using
    newer
    > code?
    >
    > Thank you.
    >
    > Doug van Vianen
    > courses@shaw.ca
    >
    The JavaDocs are your friend:
    http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/index.html

    The hide and show methods of java.awt.Component have been deprecated for a
    *long* time. Who told you to use them? The proper way to set the visibility
    of a component is setVisible(boolean b)

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