How to keep the popup menu of a JComboBox open on populating it?

I have a JComboBox on my Panel. One of the popup menu items is 'More' and when I click that I fetch more menu items and add them to the existing list. After this, I wish to keep the popup menu open so that the user realizes that more items have been fetched however, the popup closes. The event handler code I am using is as follows

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
    {
        if (e.getS开发者_如何学Pythonource() == myCombo) {
            JComboBox selectedBox = (JComboBox) e.getSource();
            String item = (String) selectedBox.getSelectedItem();
            if (item.toLowerCase().equals("more")) {
                fetchItems(selectedBox);
            }
            selectedBox.showPopup();
            selectedBox.setPopupVisible(true);
        }
    }



private void fetchItems(JComboBox box)
    {
        box.removeAllItems();
        /* code to fetch items and store them in the Set<String> items */
        for (String s : items) {
            box.addItem(s);
        }
    }

I do not understand why the showPopup() and setPopupVisible() methods are not functioning as expected.

add the following line in the fetchItems method

SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable(){

    public void run()
    {

       box.showPopup();
    }

}

If u call selectedBox.showPopup(); inside invokelater also it will work.

overwrite the JCombobox setPopupVisible metod

public void setPopupVisible(boolean v) {
    if(v)
        super.setPopupVisible(v);
}

jComboBox1 = new javax.swing.JComboBox(){
@Override
public void setPopupVisible(boolean v) {
    super.setPopupVisible(true); //To change body of generated methods, choose Tools | Templates.
}

};

I found some simple solution to always keep popup open. It may be useful with some custom JComboBox'es, like the one I have in my project, but is a little hacky.

public class MyComboBox extends JComboBox
{
    boolean keep_open_flag = false; //when that flag ==true, popup will stay open

    public MyComboBox(){
        keep_open_flag = true; //set that flag where you need
        setRenderer(new MyComboBoxRenderer()); //our spesial render
    }

    class MyComboBoxRenderer extends BasicComboBoxRenderer {

        public Component getListCellRendererComponent(JList list, Object value, 
            int index, boolean isSelected, boolean cellHasFocus) {

            if (index == -1){ //if popup hidden
                if (keep_open_flag) showPopup(); //show it again
            }
        }
    }
}