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okay... I don't know how to word this clearly...

What I am trying to do is write a "designer tool" application something like
viso.

I want to creat these objects call "control" so when I drop a control on a
canvas it will pickup when it is clicked etc..

so how do I do it?

do I need to create a canvas class that does the painting of all objects? I
mean how do I code the canvas to detect the move event stuff?

in my applet do I still need a control loop?

what would my main program structure look like?

I want to create an MDI type of an app. the user would bring up a blank
window(canvas) and drop control on it and then move the control around
etc...

where can I find info to creat apps like this?



"Torsten Welches" <torsten.welches@who.cares.netcologne.de> wrote in message
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>
> Vilasack,
>
> if you need an applet you would extend either Applet or JApplet.
> Putting a mouseMove method inside the class gets you nothing,
> please be sure to understand the event handler concept.
> You might want to consider going through a good tutorial, there
> are decent ones available online, the most prominent being:
> http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/index.html
>
> To answer the question about capturing all mouse events: You
> would probably don't want to do that with event handler -
> override the processMouseEvent method instead...
>
> Torsten
>
> "Vilasack  Phothisan" <vilasack_phothisan@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >How do I create an object that would capture all the mouse events?
> >
> >I want it to behave like an applet. For example
> >
> >if I put
> >Public Void mouseMove(...) inside the applet class...
> >this event will fire when the mouse moves within the applet.
> >
> >I want the same concept for this object I am trying to create. What class
do
> >I extend?
> >
> >
> >
>