Re: tooltip consumes mouse events?
Peter Ashford wrote:
...and this seems to end up consuming all of the mouse events, so that
I now cannot move my frame (nor launch the popup menu attached to it
via a rightclick action)
(Popup events are not necessarily right click actions - you should test
all mouse events for isPopupTrigger.)
Is this correct behaviour? If so, how should one add a tooltip to a
frame with a mouselistener on it?
Unfortunately it is the expected broken behaviour for mouse and mouse
motion events. Adding a mouse listener stops the events bubbling up the
component-container hierarchy. Actually setComponentPopupMenu (since
1.5) should be alright as it uses AWTEventListeners.
Some of your choices are:
o Add the mouse listeners at exactly the same level as other mouse
listeners. You may need to play about with ContainerListener to achieve
this.
o Add an AWTEventListener. This requires security permissions.
o Push an EventQueue with an overridden dispatchEvent method. this
doesn't stack well with similar code and prevents system copy & paste
working in sandboxed environments.
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