Re: Directly Modify Vector Item
Eric Sosman wrote:
Jimmie wrote:
Is it possible to directly manipulate an item within a Vector (or any
other AbstractCollection).
Yes. Fetch the item reference from the collection, and
call whatever methods it provides:
Vector myVec = new Vector();
...
Thing thing = (Thing)myVec.get(3);
thing.doSomething(42);
thing.somethingElse("XLII");
thing.repaint();
Side note: Don't use Vector unless you either need its built-in
synchronization, in which case don't use Vector but some other concurrent List
instead, or the obsolete non-Collection methods supported by Vector, in which
case don't use Vector but a different List with the cognate Collection methods
instead.
Vector was supplanted in 1998 by the Collections classes and there's really no
reason ever to use it. I don't understand how people are telling people to
use Vector (or Hashtable) any more - it was out of date before most current
Java programmers even learned Java.
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