read value from combobox.

[chelvan]

hi all

i face problem reading the JComboBox's selected item to a string variable.
i'm trying like this;

String str=cmbname.getSelectedItem();

its says error.
so whats the way to read the selected item.


thanks chel-1

[r035198x]

If you read the Javadocs for that class you will see that that method returns an Object.