Find by String in a GWT ListBox

I would like to find the index of an item inside a GWT Listbox by specifying a String value.

For example, if I had a GWT ListBox comprising the following items: "Randy", "Bob" and "Helen", the method i'm looking to implement would return the value 1 if I called it with parameter "Bob".

From what i'm seeing in the ListBox javadoc, 开发者_如何转开发ther does not seem to be any quick method to do this.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

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My idea of implementation as TextBox doesn't provide this out of the box. Store all the items in a list and in the order you want them to be part of ListBox.

List<String> orderedItems=new ArrayList<String>

orderedItems.add(0,"Randy");
orderedItems.add(1,"Bob");
orderedItems.add(2,"Helen");

//adding items in the same order as they are in List is the key
for(String item:items)
{
   lb.addItem(item);
}

then you can find the index using List's indexOf(..) method