Make a clickable moving image?

[scheffetz]

I have an image moving across the screen and I would like to make it clickable. Everything I have tried does not work.

I have tried adding an ActionListener, MouseListener, using an ImageIcon and JButton instead of Image.

How can I make the moving image clickable?

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

public class Main extends JFrame implements ActionListener{

    int xPos = -50;
    int yPos = 300;

    Image bob;
    Image bobImage;
    Graphics bobGraphics;

    public Main() {

        try {
          bob = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage("spongeRun.png");
        }

        catch(Exception e) {}
        setSize(800,600);
        setVisible(true);
        moveImage();
    }

    public void update(Graphics g) {
        paint(g);
    }

    public void paint(Graphics g) {

        int width  = getWidth();
        int height = getHeight();

        if (bobImage == null) {
            bobImage    = createImage(width, height);
            bobGraphics = bobImage.getGraphics();
        }

        bobGraphics.clearRect(0, 0, width + 1, height + 1);

        bobGraphics.drawImage(bob, xPos, yPos, this);

        g.drawImage(bobImage, 0, 0, this);

    }

    void moveImage() {

        for ( int i = 0 ; i < 500 ; i++ ){
            xPos +=2;
            repaint();

            try { Thread.sleep(5); }
            catch (InterruptedException e) { System.err.println("poop!"); }

        }
    }

    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){

}

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        Main me = new Main();
    }

}

[Fubarable]

I would do things very differently. For one, I try to avoid painting directly in the JFrame but rather in the paintComponent method of a JPanel or JComponent. In your situation since you want a clickable graphic, I'd do it differently still by creating an ImageIcon from the Image, placing it in a JLabel, adding a MouseListener to the JLabel, adding the JLabel to a container (JPanel) that uses null layout, taking care to set its bounds, and then moving the JLabel in a Swing timer. I'd avoid using a Thread.sleep(...) in a Swing application, and I'd not use the update method for Swing graphics (that's for AWT programs). YMMV.