Re: Catch all Mouseevents in a JPanel

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From: James Cook
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 00:00

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2 ways that I know of, but not knowing precisely what you are trying to do
makes it hard to determine which one is best.

1. Point all of your components to the same mouse handler. I think this
would probably be best.

2. Add a glass pane to your panel and add the mouse listener to this.

jim

Andreas Madenis <madenis@uni-koblenz.de> wrote in message
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> I have a JPanel with several components (JButton, JTextField etc.).
>
> I want to catch Mouseevents (esp. Mouseclicks) which happen in any of
> those components. How can I do that? A Mouselistener added to the JPanel
> is only activated when the user clicks on the JPanel itself.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andreas Madenis
>

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