Re: Display tooltips on a region of an image

From:
Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.gui
Date:
Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:27:58 -0700
Message-ID:
<xPagp.21423$vr.18918@newsfe13.iad>
On 03/16/2011 03:09 AM, SamuelXiao wrote:

Hi all, I need to make an image to display tooltips under certain
coordiante. For instance, the image is 600 * 600, when a user move
mouse cursor to a particular area, say x:from 100 to 200;y:from 200 to
300;these area will give tooltips displaying some message.

I wonder if there is any way to do this or any alternative solution?
Googled solutions gave that display tooltips with images which is not
what I want.

Any help would be highly appreciated.


This is a simple solution with one bad side effect that you can't do any
other mouse event operations on the component.

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import java.net.*;
import javax.imageio.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class test extends JPanel {
     private BufferedImage img = null;
     final Ellipse2D.Double face = new Ellipse2D.Double(359,143,40,40);

     public test() {
         try {
             URL url =
              new URL("http://rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com/kittens.jpg");
             img = ImageIO.read(url);
             setPreferredSize(
              new Dimension(img.getWidth(),img.getHeight()));
         } catch (Exception e) {
             e.printStackTrace();
         }
         setToolTipText("White Cat Face");
     }

     public boolean contains(int x, int y) {
         return face.contains(x,y);
     }

     public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
         g.drawImage(img,0,0,null);
     }

     public static void main(String[] args) {
         EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
             public void run() {
                 JFrame f = new JFrame();
                 f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
                 test t = new test();
                 f.add(t,BorderLayout.CENTER);
                 f.pack();
                 f.setVisible(true);
             }
         });
     }
}

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Knute Johnson
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