Core Web Programming, Second Edition

13.18. List Boxes

List boxes present scrolling lists from which the user can select an item (single-selectable lists) or several items (multiple-selectable lists). As with Choice menus, you first create an empty list, then add items to it through add, as below:

List list = new List();
list.addItem("...");
list.addItem("...");
...
add(list);

Constructors

The List class has three constructors.

public List()

public List(int rows)

public List(int rows, boolean multiSelectable)

The first constructor creates a single-selectable list box with a platform-dependent number of rows and a platform-dependent width. The second constructor creates a single-selectable list box with the specified number of rows and a platform-dependent width.

The last constructor ...