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    copied!<p>I'm trying to do as the title says.</p> <p>I've got an efficient way for posting several of the same swing objects to a frame by storing them in an array and adding them using a for loop like so:</p> <pre><code>JLabel[] contrllabels= new JLabel[8]; contrllabels[0] = new JLabel("SCF Type: "); contrllabels[1] = new JLabel("Units: "); contrllabels[2] = new JLabel("Spherical Harmonics: "); contrllabels[3] = new JLabel("Molecular Charge: "); contrllabels[4] = new JLabel("PP: "); contrllabels[5] = new JLabel("DFT Type: "); contrllabels[6] = new JLabel("Max Iterations: "); contrllabels[7] = new JLabel("Mult: "); for(int i = 0;i&lt;contrllabels.length;i++){ c.gridy = i; frame.add(contrllabels[i],c); } </code></pre> <p>But what if there are several swing objects of different types? I've got several combo boxes and textfields which I'd like to be added to the frame in a similar manner. I use gridbaglayout so if I don't use a for loop, I end up with lots of unnecessary code due to giving the constraints new values every time I want a different object added.</p> <p>Is there such thing as an array of references which point to these different objects which I can then iterate through to add to the frame? Something like</p> <pre><code>JTextField tf = new JTextField(5); JComboBox cb = new JComboBox("example"); Swing[] array = {tf,cb} for(int i = 0;i&lt;array.length;i++){ c.gridy = i; frame.add(array[i],c); } </code></pre> <p>I know such an array doesn't exist, but is there some way of implementing such a thing? It would greatly reduce the number of lines in my code and make it less confusing.</p> <p>Thank you</p>
 

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