Clicking Items inside of a JList

Hey guys, I have a desktop application that has a JList that has a custom cell renderer. The cells are all JPanels that have Jbuttons, jlabels, and images displayed in them.



My problem: When I click on a jbutton in that jlist's cells, I need the button to do it's actionPerformed method. The problem is that jlist overrides all clicks and handles them on its own. So, how do I translate a click down to a cell in the jlist. For example, if I get a MouseEvent after clicking somewhere in the JList, how do I send it down to the cells to handle?

I need to be able to click buttons inside of that jlist.

I seem to remember a suggestion to use a JTable that was given when this was posted in another forum.

Hmm that would work. thanks for the input. I'd "prefer" to use what I've already written, unless it's completely impossible to do so. If it comes down to it, I'll have to use a JTable.

Does anyone know how to translate events from the jlist to the cells within the jlist?

Just because you've written something doesn't make it correct. Learn to use components the way they where designed to be used. JList was designed for display only. JTable was designed for display and edit. So yes you could add edit code to JList, but then you would have a JTable.

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Originally Posted by hunterbdb

Does anyone know how to translate events from the jlist to the cells within the jlist?

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Use the right tool for the job as Camickr suggests here and elsewhere.

Also, as noted, if you wish to avoid upsetting the volunteers here and being placed on their "do not help" lists, please do not cross-post without stating you are doing so. Thanks for your cooperation in this.

Oh. thanks fubarable, your right I f'ed up big time sorry.

EDIT: where was I cross-posting from?


Still, nobody has tried to answer my question directly. I appreciate the input though.

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Originally Posted by hunterbdb

Oh. thanks fubarable, your right I f'ed up big time sorry.

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I wouldn't say that, not at all. But I will say that you should listen to what rob has to say when he gives out Swing recommendations as he's one of the most knowledgeable Swing experts I've seen here or elsewhere.

Much luck!

Oh okay I'll do that for sure. thanks for your consideration too.

When I wanted to process mouse hits on a JList, I subclassed JList and in the contructor I wrote:

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        // do my own mouse processing
        MouseListener[] ml = getMouseListeners();
        for (MouseListener l : ml)
                removeMouseListener(l);
        addMouseListener (new MyClickHandler());

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I'm not proud of it, but it does work.

For getting mouse hits down to buttons in the JList,
I imagine you could omit the addMouseListener() call.

Okay, I'll try that. Thank you so much!