Forwarding an event in java

>>how do I simply forward all events from the Button to its parent after handling them in Button?

Forward? What do you want to do with it? You can just pass 'e' to another method

you can't, you'd instead add your parent also as a listener.

My parent (the JTextPane) has a MouseListener.

It is called everywhere - but not if I click the Button.
I want that the ActionPerformed of the Button is called and then the mouseClicked of the JTextPane is called.

The reason why I wanted to do that is that I need to set the caretPosition in the JTextPane to where the Button is placed in the JTextPane.
But when I try to find out the position of the Button in the JTextPane I always get (0/0) for the x- and y-coordinate.

so I created a mouseListener for the JTextPane where I get the position in the JTextPane where the user clicked --> I can find out the Position and set the CaretPosition
--> thats why I need to forward the event to the JTextPane even when the Button is clicked

If you want to get the coordinates on the button in terms of the JTextPane, add a MouseListener to the button and use

SwingUtilities.convertMouseEvent(Component source, MouseEvent sourceEvent, Component destination)

>> after handling them in Button

So the parent also needs to handle the event? In that case, it should perhaps also register itself as an action-listener for the button.

> The reason why I wanted to do that is that I need to set the caretPosition in the JTextPane to where the Button is placed in the JTextPane.

you can just use button.getLocation() in that case.
why have you get a button inside your text pane?

@ mayankeagle
how can it register itself as an action-listener for the button?
can u give a code-example?

@objects:
button.getLocation() returns 0/0 --> no idea why.. perhaps a special layout

--> its a chat application --> i need a button inside the text pane to delete the specific message (works already)

@CEHJ
SwingUtilities.convertMouseEvent(Component source, MouseEvent sourceEvent, Component destination)
--> didn't work
button.addMouseListener(new MouseListener(){
      public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e){
            
      QMessageButton userButton =  (QMessageButton)e.getSource();
      String messageNo = userButton.getMessageNo();
      System.out.println("Userbutton klicked!" + messageNo);
      SwingUtilities.convertMouseEvent(userButton, e, MessageMask.getInstance().getMessagesJTP());
      Point p = e.getPoint();
      System.out.println("DelButton-Location: " + p.getX() + ", " + p.getY());
--> I get the coordinates inside the button instead of the coordinates inside the messagesJTP

> button.getLocation() returns 0/0 --> no idea why.. perhaps a special layout

because thats where it is located I'd say :)
the corrds are relative to its immediate parent

to get the coords relative to another component then use

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/swing/SwingUtilities.html#convertPoint(java.awt.Component,%20java.awt.Point,%20java.awt.Component)

> --> its a chat application --> i need a button inside the text pane to delete the specific message (works already)

Doesn't need to be inside the text pane to achiev e that, it can be anywhere in your hierarchy.


> 

CEHJ

Thanks for your solution. It worked fine.

:-)

easier to just add the listener to the parent, then no conversion is necesary
and also less coupling.