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Mouse listening in JPanel

Hi Experts,

I am using JPanel in JFrame. I added MouseListener, MouseMotionListener to JPanel. Now when i click on the JPanel, mousePressed event is executing. Then i added three JEditorPanes, in the JPanel. When i click on the JEditorPane, in the JPanel my mouseListener is not getting executed. Why this behavi3F. I created one more class that extends JEditorPane and added MouseListener to it. I added this derived class to JPanel, then also the same behaviour. What is the problem?. Please help me

Thanks in Advance
Regards Jagannadh

S/W JDK 1.2.1
O/s 95/NT

awilkins

I think that events are only delivered to the component that is the direct recipient of the event and not to that component's container. Therefore, your JPanel receives MousePressed events when the mouse is pressed over the JPanel directly, but not when the mouse is pressed over a JEditorPane which is inside the JPanel.

To fix this, you need to have call addMouseListener on each of your JEditorPanes with the same MouseListener that you added to your JPanel. This should cause the MouseEvents to occur as you expect.

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