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The element is ListModel should be an instance of Selectable . If you have your own class that represents the element in the list, you can implement Selectable and implements a few very simple methods. If your elements are already in an array or Vector that you pass in to the constructor of JList, we will convert them to DefaultSelectable which implements Selectable interface.

To select an element, user can mouse click on the check box, or highlight the rows and press SPACE key to toggle the selections.

Please note, there are two implementions of CheckBoxList. CheckBoxListWithSelectable is one. There is also another one call CheckBoxList. CheckBoxListWithSelectable is actually the old implementation. In 1.9.2, we introduced a new implementation and renamed the old implementation to CheckBoxListWithSelectable. The main difference between the two implementation is at how the selection state is kept. In new implementation, the selection state is kept at a separate ListSelectionModel which you can get using CheckBoxList.getCheckBoxListSelectionModel . The old implementation kept the selection state at Selectable object in the ListModel.

Please note, if you are using this constructor, please make sure all elements in dataModel are instance of Selectable .
Parameters:
  dataModel - the data model for this list
throws:
  IllegalArgumentException - if dataModelis null