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Eclipse design view tool fails when using generics [message #1826054]

Fri, 17 April 2020 19:13

J Mann

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Registered: April 2020

Junior Member

I am using Eclipse for a custom JDialog extension and want to add a JComboBox. Using Java 8.

I initially used
String[] foo ={"first","second"};
JComboBox jbo = new JComboBox(foo);

But this generates warnings about using raw JComboBox.
So I changed to
JComboBox<String> jbo = JComboBox<String>(foo);

This compiles and eliminates the warnings, but when I try to look at result with design view if fails with:

"new JComboBox<String>(tabls) is not valid source for component creation, it references not existing constructor. "

which isn't even proper grammar.

Eclipse is set to use Java 8. Anyone have an idea of what the problem might be?

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