CommonCheckBox's toString() doesn't return label (v. 2.1.6)

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I create a CheckBox with label "Check Box #1". I added it to a CheckBoxList. I 
add this to a window with addComponent(). When I run the program, the check box 
is rendered as such:

[ ] com.googlecode.lanterna.gui.component.CheckBox@*memory location*

I tried overriding the toString() method of CheckBox to return a hard coded 
label and that label appears next to the check selection.

Example code:
(this one shows the class name instead of label)
class CheckWin extends Window
{
    public CheckWin()
    {
        super("My Window!");

        CheckBoxList checks = new CheckBoxList();
        CheckBox check1 = new CheckBox("Check Box #1", true);
        checks.addItem(check1);
        addComponent(checks);
    }
}

(this one shows hard coded label)
class CheckWin extends Window
{
    public CheckWin()
    {
        super("My Window!");

        CheckBoxList checks = new CheckBoxList();
        CheckBox check1 = new CheckBox("you can't see this", true) {
                public String toString() 
                {
                    return "Check Box #1"; 
                }
        };

        checks.addItem(check1);
        addComponent(checks);
    }
}

this one renders as:

[ ] Check Box #1

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jasni...@gmail.com on 18 Sep 2013 at 2:39

Ah, so you actually don't populate a CheckBoxList with CheckBox objects... A CheckBox is a separate GUI element which lives on it's own while the CheckBoxList is a handy component for making multiple checkboxes in one list with an optional scroll bar. The "items" you pass in by addItem(..) can be anything, CheckBoxList will call .toString() on them to get the label to draw. You can get the original object back by calling (for example) getItemAt(..) on the CheckBoxList. If you only want a number of labels, you can just use Strings.

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