Canvas and mouseMoved()

[Zman3359]

I'm trying to get mouse input for a button class so that I can tell if the mouse is over the button or not. The problem is that I'm not getting any input from mouseMoved(). I'm extending a MouseAdapter and adding it to my Canvas using addMouseListener(). As far as I can tell mouseMoved() isn't even getting called does anyone know why this might be?

EDIT: Solved

[Norm]

Does the component with the listener have the focus?
Is mouseMoved() one of the methods for a MouseListener?

[Zman3359]

Yes I call requestFocus(), no it's not. That must be the problem. I fixed it by using addMouseListner() and addMouseMotionListner().

[Norm]

There is more than requesting focus. Is the component focusable?
There are methods to test that and to set it.
For debugging add a focus listener and some println to the gained and lost methods to see if/where focus is.

[Zman3359]

Yes, it's focusable I know this because I have a key listener that works fine, and I was getting click input. The problem was that I was using mouseMoved() to get movement and only adding my MouseAdapter using addMouseListener() which doesn't support mouseMoved() so now I use addMouseListener() and addMouseMotionListner() because addMouseMotionListner() supprots mouseMoved().

[Norm]

So is the problem solved?

[Zman3359]

Yes, your question helped me fix the problem.