Java tutorial
import java.awt.BorderLayout; import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; import javax.swing.DefaultListModel; import javax.swing.JButton; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JList; import javax.swing.JScrollPane; public class ModifyModelSampleModelAction { static String labels[] = { "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G" }; public static void main(String args[]) { JFrame frame = new JFrame("Modifying Model"); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); // Fill model final DefaultListModel model = new DefaultListModel(); for (int i = 0, n = labels.length; i < n; i++) { model.addElement(labels[i]); } JList jlist = new JList(model); JScrollPane scrollPane1 = new JScrollPane(jlist); frame.add(scrollPane1, BorderLayout.CENTER); JButton jb = new JButton("add F"); jb.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent actionEvent) { model.add(0, "First"); model.clear(); model.addElement("Last"); model.addElement("Last"); model.addElement("Last"); model.addElement("Last"); int size = model.getSize(); model.insertElementAt("Middle", size / 2); model.set(0, "New First"); model.setElementAt("New Last", size - 1); model.remove(0); // model.removeAllElements(); // model.removeElement("Last"); // model.removeElementAt(size / 2); // model.removeRange(0, size / 2); } }); frame.add(jb, BorderLayout.SOUTH); frame.setSize(640, 300); frame.setVisible(true); } }