Hovering mouse over a button and painting

[gtraylo]

The following code is what I have to try to paint a rectangle when ever I hover over a button. This rectangle will show a brief description of what the button will do. I'm doing something similar when pressing the help button and hovering over something a description in a rectangle shows up. But I cannot get the paint method to work. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to fix this.

public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {
				//System.out.println("asdf");
				showMessage("Test");
			}
 
			private void showMessage(String string) 
			{ 
				public void paint(Graphics g) 
				{ 
					g.fillRect(25, 20, 20, 20);
					g.drawString("Hello", 25, 20); 
				} 
				//System.out.println(string); 
			}

[CaptainMorgan]

What do you mean it will not work? Are you receiving errors? Is the rectangle not showing? Also, your code is a bit strange... this is the first time I've seen the paint method as you've shown... someone correct me if I'm wrong.. but I don't think you can have a method definition inside of another one...move the paint method outside of the showMessage method can we see the whole class and/or how you're using it...

public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {
  //System.out.println("asdf");
  showMessage("Test");
}
            
private void showMessage(String string) { 
  //System.out.println(string);
}

public void paint(Graphics g) { 
  g.fillRect(25, 20, 20, 20);
  g.drawString("Hello", 25, 20); 
}

I realize this isn't the answer you're looking for but have a good read at the Sun tutorial on Mouse-Motion and other events.

[Zosden]

why not use ToolTextTip it does what ur trying to do, but a lot easier