I have one outer panel, in the outer panel I have another jPanel placed on it.
if i do a right click on the inner panel, outer panel's right click action should happen. if i do left click on the inner panel, its own inner panel's click action should happen.
Is it possible to pass click event from one panel to another panel?
There are a number issues you need to resolve for this to work.
The first is understanding that a mouse event is contextual to the component that created it, in particular, the location information. The click point is the offset from the source components x/y position (which will be 0x0 for the mouse event). This means if you want to redispatch the event, you need to, at least, translate the location context into the parent components space.
The source component should also be changed. Failing to do this could cause issues for other parts of the API that may rely on it to make determinations (such as a popup, which will want to translate the location information from the component space to the screen space).
Secondly, you should make no assumptions about the parent. That is, you should make no assumption that the parent may or may not implement a mouse listener interfaces.
A possible solution would be to use SwingUtilities.convertMouseEvent to convert the MouseEvent raised in the inner panel to be compatible with the outer panel and then use Component#dispatchEvent to mimick the standard event handling process, for example...
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException;
import javax.swing.border.EmptyBorder;
public class TestTree {
public static void main(String[] args) {
new TestTree();
}
public TestTree() {
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
try {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
} catch (ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
}
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Testing");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
frame.add(new OutterPane());
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
});
}
public class InnerPane extends JPanel {
public InnerPane() {
setBackground(Color.RED);
addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
#Override
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
System.out.println("Inner was clicked at : " + e.getPoint());
MouseEvent convertMouseEvent = SwingUtilities.convertMouseEvent(e.getComponent(), e, getParent());
getParent().dispatchEvent(convertMouseEvent);
}
});
}
}
public class OutterPane extends JPanel {
public OutterPane() {
setLayout(new BorderLayout());
setBorder(new EmptyBorder(10, 10, 10, 10));
add(new InnerPane());
addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
#Override
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
System.out.println("Outter was clicked at : " + e.getPoint());
}
});
}
#Override
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
return new Dimension(200, 200);
}
}
}
Have you tried something like in your inner panel?
void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
if ( e.getButton() == MouseEvent.BUTTON2 ) {
outter.mouseClicked( e );
}
else {
// do job for your inner panel
}
}
Below code worked for me
JPanel parent = (JPanel) me.getComponent().getParent();
MouseMotionListener[] ml = parent.getMouseMotionListeners();
ml[0].mouseClicked(me);
Thanks all
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I must use a swing-ui designer tool to create my UI, that only supports graphically editing JPanels. Those panels (they basically contain complex button designs) to work like a JButton. I cannot use anything other than JPanel as base class of these panels (UI editor limitation).
What is the most generic solution to do this?
Create a custom button that uses the panel's draw method instead of
it's own?
Create a base-panel class that reimplements the whole
button?
Another more elegant solution?
Here is a quick demo, to show you how you could use borders to simulate a button.
The demo also reacts to mouse and key events :
import java.awt.event.KeyAdapter;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import javax.swing.BorderFactory;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.border.Border;
import javax.swing.border.EtchedBorder;
public class JPanelButton extends JPanel {
Border raisedetched = BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder(EtchedBorder.RAISED);
Border loweredetched = BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder(EtchedBorder.LOWERED);
public static void main(final String[] args) {
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
final JPanelButton panel = new JPanelButton();
panel.raiseBorder();
panel.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
#Override
public void mousePressed(final MouseEvent e) {
panel.lowerBorder();
}
#Override
public void mouseReleased(final MouseEvent e) {
panel.raiseBorder();
}
});
panel.setFocusable(true); // you need this or the panel won't get the key events
panel.addKeyListener(new KeyAdapter() {
#Override
public void keyPressed(final KeyEvent e) {
panel.lowerBorder();
}
#Override
public void keyReleased(final KeyEvent e) {
panel.raiseBorder();
}
});
frame.setContentPane(panel);
frame.setSize(100, 100);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
public void raiseBorder() {
setBorder(raisedetched);
}
public void lowerBorder() {
setBorder(loweredetched);
}
}
Simply add MouseListener.
JPanel jp = new JPanel();
jp.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter(){
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
System.out.println("Clicked");
}
});
If this answer isn't specific enough, leave a comment and I'll give you more explanation.
just a short question: Is it possible to add a background color to a JComponent when it is added directly onto a JFrame using null layout? The size and position of the component are set by setBounds() and i know that the background color will not be displayed using this setup. (I know you should always use layout managers, but in this case i want to prevent this).
JComponent is transparent by default, you'd either need to change its opaque state or use a JPanel
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import javax.swing.JComponent;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException;
import javax.swing.border.LineBorder;
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
new Test();
}
public Test() {
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
try {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
} catch (ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
TestPane pane = new TestPane();
pane.setBounds(10, 10, 100, 100);
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Testing");
frame.setLayout(null); // This is bad, but it proofs my point
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.add(pane);
frame.setSize(200, 200);
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
});
}
public class TestPane extends JComponent {
public TestPane() {
addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
#Override
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
setOpaque(!isOpaque());
repaint();
}
});
setBackground(Color.BLUE);
setBorder(new LineBorder(Color.RED));
}
}
}
null layouts are bad news, I don't condone them and you should avoid using them, the example above simply proves the point that it's the JComponents opaque state which needs to be changed
Why is it frowned upon to use a null layout in SWING? is a nice read about why you should avoid using null layouts.
If you want more control, write your own.
I'm working on an application that allows me to show and hide split planes.
I've read some articles on how to get this but its not what I'm looking for.
here's the code Ive written:
Im currently using netbeans.
private void jSplitPane1MouseEntered(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) {
if(MouseInfo.getPointerInfo().getLocation() == jSplitPane1.getLeftComponent().getLocation()){
jSplitPane1.setDividerLocation(100);
System.out.println("Mouse Entered");
}else{
jSplitPane1.setDividerLocation(20);
System.out.println("Mouse Exited");
}
}
I have referred to these posts:
How to make JSplitPane auto expand on mouse hover?
Get Mouse Position
What I want to happen is when I mouse over the left side of the jSplitPane, I would get the divider to extend to 100 as per my first if statement, and when it exists the left side, it contracts back to divider location 20.
This is really, really tricky.
You could use a MouseListener on the "left" component and monitor the mouseEntered and mouseExited events, but these will also get triggered when when you move into and out of a child component which has a MouseListener of it's own (like a JButton).
Okay, you could use a MouseMotionListener on the JSplitPane and monitor for the mouseMoved event and check where the mouse cursor is, but this goes to hell the moment the components (left/right) get their own MouseListener, as the MouseEvents are no longer delivered to the JSplitPane
So, one of the last options you have is to attach a global AWTListener to the event queue and monitor for events which occur on the JSplitPane itself, for example...
import java.awt.AWTEvent;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.GridBagLayout;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.event.AWTEventListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JSplitPane;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
new Main();
}
public Main() {
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
try {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
} catch (ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Testing");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.add(new TestPane());
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
});
}
public class TestPane extends JPanel {
public TestPane() {
setLayout(new BorderLayout());
JSplitPane pane = new JSplitPane();
pane.setLeftComponent(makePane(Color.RED));
pane.setRightComponent(makePane(Color.BLUE));
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().addAWTEventListener(new AWTEventListener() {
#Override
public void eventDispatched(AWTEvent event) {
if (event instanceof MouseEvent) {
MouseEvent me = (MouseEvent) event;
if (pane.getBounds().contains(me.getPoint())) {
System.out.println("Global Motion in the pane...");
me = SwingUtilities.convertMouseEvent(me.getComponent(), me, pane);
Component left = pane.getLeftComponent();
if (left.getBounds().contains(me.getPoint())) {
pane.setDividerLocation(100);
} else {
pane.setDividerLocation(20);
}
}
}
}
}, MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOTION_EVENT_MASK);
// You don't need this, this is to demonstrate
// that mouse events aren't hitting your component
// via the listener
pane.addMouseMotionListener(new MouseAdapter() {
#Override
public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {
System.out.println("Motion in the pane...");
Component left = pane.getLeftComponent();
if (left.getBounds().contains(e.getPoint())) {
pane.setDividerLocation(100);
} else {
pane.setDividerLocation(20);
}
}
});
pane.setDividerLocation(20);
add(pane);
}
protected JPanel makePane(Color background) {
JPanel pane = new JPanel() {
#Override
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
return new Dimension(100, 100);
}
};
pane.setLayout(new GridBagLayout());
pane.add(new JButton("..."));
pane.setBackground(background);
pane.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
#Override
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
System.out.println("...");
}
});
return pane;
}
}
}
I'm trying to build a JPopupMenu that appears on mouse entering in a specific component. This JPopupMenu contains a JTextField for value editing (numbers). Since I cannot know in advance the length of the number that will be edited, I'd like to make my popup resizing after each key is typed. I achieved this by adding KeyListener to the JTextField and trying to handle the focus. My trick works, but I meet the following problems when I build the application:
Every time I call the pack() method, the focus moves from JtextField to another component and then comes back to JtextField thanks to the requestFocus() method (this makes my windows continuously flickering). In this case, to make the other component not focusable could not be a solution to me.
JPopupMenu disappears when its size so as to exit from the window.
I attach an abstract of my code below.
Is there a better way to achieve my goal? Or to manage the issues caused by the use of both pack() and requestFocus() methods?
package prova;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.awt.event.KeyListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseListener;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JPopupMenu;
import javax.swing.JRootPane;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
public class Main {
public final static void main(String[] args ){
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
JPanel p = (JPanel)frame.getContentPane();
p.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
p.setPreferredSize(new java.awt.Dimension(100,100));
JLabel l = new JLabel("my label");
l.setOpaque(true);
l.setPreferredSize(new java.awt.Dimension(50,20));
l.setBackground(Color.white);
JPopupMenu pop = new JPopupMenu();
JTextField textField = new JTextField("edit text");
textField.addKeyListener(new KeyListener() {
#Override
public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e) {}
#Override
public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e) {
pop.pack();
((JTextField)e.getSource()).requestFocus();
}
#Override
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {}
});
l.addMouseListener(new MouseListener() {
#Override
public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {}
#Override
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {}
#Override
public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e) {}
#Override
public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e) {
if(!pop.isVisible()){
pop.show((java.awt.Component)e.getSource(), e.getX(), e.getY());
}
}
#Override
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {}
});
pop.add(textField);
p.add(l,BorderLayout.EAST);
frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}
For the first problem:
Solution:
#Override
public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e) {
Window window = SwingUtilities.getWindowAncestor(pop);
window.pack();
}
I think(!) the reason for the flicker effect is because JPopupMenu doesn't extend Window in it's class hierarchy (see below), and the pack() method is designed for windows only.
java.lang.Object
java.awt.Component
java.awt.Container
javax.swing.JComponent
javax.swing.JPopupMenu
For the second problem:
I don't understand what you mean by that, the popupmenu doesn't disappear for me when it's size is "too big" (if that is what you meant).
I am trying to do a small app that compares two similar texts contained in 2 JTextarea. I am wondering if it's possible to select text from the first JTextarea and automatically select the text on the second JTeaxtarea (lets consider that it's guarantee that the 2 JTextarea will have the same text for now) ?
Should I share events or listeners ?
Thank you
This would be so much easier if JTextComponent supported a selection model...
Basically, what you can do is attach a ChangeListener to the JTextArea's Caret and monitor for changes to the Caret, changing the selection of the other JTextArea in response...
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException;
import javax.swing.event.CaretEvent;
import javax.swing.event.CaretListener;
import javax.swing.event.ChangeEvent;
import javax.swing.event.ChangeListener;
import javax.swing.text.BadLocationException;
import javax.swing.text.DefaultHighlighter;
public class MirrorTextSelection {
public static void main(String[] args) {
new MirrorTextSelection();
}
public MirrorTextSelection() {
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
try {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
} catch (ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
}
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Testing");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
frame.add(new TestPane());
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
});
}
public class TestPane extends JPanel {
private JTextArea left;
private JTextArea right;
private DefaultHighlighter.DefaultHighlightPainter highlightPainter;
public TestPane() {
highlightPainter = new DefaultHighlighter.DefaultHighlightPainter(UIManager.getColor("TextArea.selectionBackground"));
left = new JTextArea(20, 20);
left.setWrapStyleWord(true);
left.setLineWrap(true);
right = new JTextArea(20, 20);
right.setWrapStyleWord(true);
right.setLineWrap(true);
left.setText("I am trying to do a small app that compares two similar texts contained in 2 JTextarea. I am wondering if it's possible to select text from the first JTextarea and automatically select the text on the second JTeaxtarea (lets consider that it's guarantee that the 2 JTextarea will have the same text for now) ? Should I share events or listeners ? Thank you");
right.setText("I am trying to do a small app that compares two similar texts contained in 2 JTextarea. I am wondering if it's possible to select text from the first JTextarea and automatically select the text on the second JTeaxtarea (lets consider that it's guarantee that the 2 JTextarea will have the same text for now) ? Should I share events or listeners ? Thank you");
setLayout(new GridLayout(0, 2));
add(new JScrollPane(left));
add(new JScrollPane(right));
left.getCaret().addChangeListener(new ChangeListener() {
#Override
public void stateChanged(ChangeEvent e) {
int dot = left.getCaret().getDot();
int mark = left.getCaret().getMark();
right.setCaretPosition(mark);
right.moveCaretPosition(dot);
}
});
}
}
}
Now, when you run this, you will find that the right side doesn't seem to get highlighted...what?!
The selection is changing, it's just not been rendered because the component doesn't have focus...
Instead, you could use a Highlighter to highlight the text...
private DefaultHighlighter.DefaultHighlightPainter highlightPainter;
//...
highlightPainter = new DefaultHighlighter.DefaultHighlightPainter(UIManager.getColor("TextArea.selectionBackground"));
left.getCaret().addChangeListener(new ChangeListener() {
#Override
public void stateChanged(ChangeEvent e) {
int dot = left.getCaret().getDot();
int mark = left.getCaret().getMark();
right.getHighlighter().removeAllHighlights();
try {
int start = Math.min(dot, mark);
int end = Math.max(dot, mark);
right.getHighlighter().addHighlight(start, end, highlightPainter);
} catch (BadLocationException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
});
Okay, this is now working and you can control the background color of the highlight...
There is another alternative...We can replace the Caret of the right JTextArea with one that doesn't hide the selection when focus is lost...
public class HighlightCaret extends DefaultCaret {
#Override
public void install(JTextComponent c) {
super.install(c);
setSelectionVisible(true);
}
#Override
public void focusGained(FocusEvent e) {
JTextComponent component = getComponent();
if (component.isEnabled()) {
if (component.isEditable()) {
setVisible(true);
}
setSelectionVisible(true);
}
}
#Override
public void focusLost(FocusEvent e) {
setVisible(false);
}
}
Then we set the Caret to right...
right.setCaret(nwe HighlightCaret());
This means we don't need the Highlighter code, we can stick with the original and we get control over not only the background selection color but also the foreground selection color as well...