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From: John P. McGrath
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 00:00

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On Mon, 7 Aug 2000 13:33:55 -0500, JNewbie wrote:

> I have a JTable component that contains a bunch of URLs
> in it.  I would like to show the user that the content
> the mouse is hovering over is a URL by underlining the
> contnent below the mouse.  Is there anyway to do this?
> I thought you would have to use the OnMouseEnter event
> to see if the mouse is over the JTable control...but I
> don't know how to find out which cell the mouse is over
> if it is not selected.  I do not want to have to select
> the cell if I don't have to.

A cell in a JTable is not a Component, so you will not be able to use the 
MOUSE_ENTERED and MOUSE_EXITED events for handling this.  But you can add 
a MouseMotionListener to the JTable, and use the JTable columnAtPoint() 
and rowAtPoint() methods to convert the position to cell coordinates.

-- 
Regards,

John McGrath

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