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A central MouseMotionListener in java

I have added a MouseMotionListener in my JFrame to control all mouse motion messages that arrived from all objects in my jframe, but when I move my mouse over a JLayeredPane no message is produced. Please help me to add a central MouseMotionListener in my JFrame to control all messages from all objects in it.

great thanks.

Solution

  • You would want to use a AWTEventListener to listen for all AWT messages.

    Following code shows how to listen for mouse and key events:

    long eventMask = AWTEvent.MOUSE_MOTION_EVENT_MASK
    + AWTEvent.MOUSE_EVENT_MASK
    + AWTEvent.KEY_EVENT_MASK;

Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().addAWTEventListener( new AWTEventListener()
{
    public void eventDispatched(AWTEvent e)
    {
        System.out.println(e.getID());
    }
}, eventMask);

    See Global Event Listeners for more information.