Mouse Events

[Ted Hill]

The ChartPanel class has an addChartMouseListener() method which will be called on mouseMoved and mouseClicked.

What is the best way to get called for other mouse events. In particular I want mousePressed, mouseDragged, mouseReleased.

Should I subclass ChartPanel which handles these other mouse events?

Or is there a better way to do this?

Is there a demo that shows how to get the other mouse events?

Thanks,

[gribas]

If you want just the mouse events, call addMouseListener() , after all, ChartPanel is a Panel.

If you want Chart events (like what chart entity is below a mousePressed coordinate) you'll have to subclass or modify ChartPanel itself. You could also create your own method to find chart entities given a screen coordinate.

regards,
Gustavo

[develop]

i have implemented all mouse event as i needed to do that , i subclassed ChartPanel and override all mouse events and i also called super for each method and its working fine.

Thanks

[david.gilbert]

What is the best way to get called for other mouse events. In particular I want mousePressed, mouseDragged, mouseReleased.

I haven't written any code that handles these other events. Eventually I'd like to give it a try, but since I haven't done so yet, I can't really offer any advice. It would be great if you could post some code if you get something working...

[develop]

all i do is following

CustomChartPanel extends ChartPanel implements MouseMotionListener{
...}

then i implement all mouse events.

the functioanlity that i needed is this.
user clicks on button then he starts dragging mouse and draw line on chart and when he released the mouse, that line should be drawn on chart.

for this i grab the mouse point when user presses mouse and to draw line i used XYLIneAnnotation.

I can make sample program if any one wants...

Thanks

[the_schmitz]

Hi develop,
I'd like to see a sample program. I have a similar need for something like this, with a twist.

I have a client that wants to be able to click on a datapoint and then have a little window popup on the graph with information regarding the datapoint. Kind of like a tooltip, but a bit more advanced. They want the information to stay on the graph, so when they print it, or save it, they'll still see it. They also want to be able to move the window around, and dismiss it.

So, a sample program with the MouseMotionListener stuff, would be a great starting point for me.
Thanks in advance!