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No need to reply I have figured out my problem.



Dean Henkel wrote:

> I've got a question regarding Event Handling, specifically catching
> mouse events.
>
> My application usesSwing Controls.  I've got a JFrame, which contains a
> JPanel, which Contains a JSplitFrame, which contains some controls in
> each pane.
>
> JFrame
>     JPanel
>          JSplitFrame
>                  JButton
>                  JTextField
>
> What I would like to do is have the JPanel catch a mouse move event when
> the mouse moves any place over the pane, (which would be over the
> JButton or the JTextField since they take up the entire panel). I've
> implemented the processMouseMotion() method in the JPanel class.
> Unfortunately the method never gets called.  I added the
> processMouseMotion() to the JSplitFrame() class, and it gets called when
> the mouse cursor is over the slider portion of the window but not over
> any of the controls within the split panes.
>
> I assume the control's(JButton, JTextField) are eating the mouse events
> and they never get passed to container classes.
>
> What is the procedure for passing events to container classes. Must the
> containers have a processMouseMotion() and call the containers
> processMouseMotion() assuming the component has a handle to the
> container? Examples would be helpful.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dean