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Hi,

I'm new to java and am currently trying to develop an applet which will
contain a lot of buttons. What I want to do is have a button reverse its
foreground and background colors when the mouse enters/exits the button.
Jbuilder creates a seperate method for each button and I currently need
to add the same code to each button in order to reverse the colors. What
I want to know is if its possible to create a class that extends button
which contains an inner class which extends mouseadapter. The inner
class only impliments the mouse enter/exit code. Within the applet I
then want to be able to create instances of my "new" button which will
then reverse colors. I also need to be able to have a unique mouseclick
method for each button. The structure is currently:

public class myapp extends Applet {

mybutton first = new mybutton;

... other components ......

public void init();

first.setLabel("first");  // This works

.... additional init code......

}

public class mybutton extends Button {

  public void init()

     this.addMouseListener(MyButtonAdapter());
}

class MyButtonAdapter extends MouseAdapter {

   public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e) {
       setBackground(Color.forgroundcolor);
       setForeground(Color.background)
  }
   public void mouseExit(MouseEvent e) {
      setBackground(Color.background);
      setForeground(Color.foreground);
  }
}

The foreground/background colors are currently hard coded,
but this will change if I can ever get it to work. Nothing happens
when the mouse enters/exits the button.

Am I missing something obvious here or is this approach just
plain wrong?

Thanks in advance,
Art Smith
arcs@stat.ufl.edu