Events in java,

[soulchyld]

Hi, Im trying to develop an applet, that displays images and then swaps the images when the mouse goes over the image, I have one problem and that is adding the mouseListener, I have got it to work but it swaps the image when the mouse enters the applet and not the image, can anyone tell me where I have gone wrong with my code?
as you can probably tell Im a newbie to programming in general,

import java.awt.*; 
import java.applet.*; 
// These classes are for Url's. 
import java.net.*; 
import java.awt.event.*;

public class ImageExample extends Applet 
implements MouseListener
{ 
 // names of my images 
     Image forward;	 
	 Image reverse;
	 Image left;
	 Image right;
	 Image forward2;
	 
	 Boolean forwardActive;
	 
	 	 

 // The applet base URL used to retrieve the images over the web
     URL base; 

 // This object will allow you to control loading 
     MediaTracker mt; 

     public void init()  
     { 
	 
	 
	 
  // initialize the MediaTracker 
          mt = new MediaTracker(this);   

         try {     
               base = getDocumentBase(); 
			 } 
             catch (Exception e) {} 

  // Here I am loading the image.   
                             forward = getImage(base,"up.jpg"); 
		  forward2 = getImage(base,"up2.jpg");
		  reverse = getImage(base,"down.jpg");
		  left = getImage(base,"left.jpg");
		  right = getImage(base,"right.jpg");
		  addMouseListener(this);

  // tell the MediaTracker to kep an eye on this image, and give it ID 1; 
          mt.addImage(forward,1);
		  mt.addImage(forward2,5);
		  mt.addImage(reverse,2);
		  mt.addImage(left,3);
		  mt.addImage(right,4);  

         try { 
               mt.waitForAll(); 
             } 
             catch (InterruptedException  e) {}   
     } 

     public void paint(Graphics g)  
     { 
  // now we are going to draw the images on the screen 
  // (image name,x,y,observer); 
          g.drawImage(forward,100,20,this); 
		  g.drawImage(reverse,100,200,this);
		  g.drawImage(left,30,95,this);
		  g.drawImage(right,205,95,this); 
		  
		  if (forwardActive)g.drawImage(forward2,100,20,this);
		  else g.drawImage(forward,100,20,this);
     } 
	 
		public void mouseClicked (MouseEvent me) {} 
		public void mouseEntered (MouseEvent me) {forwardActive = true; repaint();} 
		public void mousePressed (MouseEvent me) {} 
		public void mouseReleased (MouseEvent me) {}  
		public void mouseExited (MouseEvent me) {forwardActive = false; repaint();}  
	 
	 	 

}

Thanks for all your help!

[Fubarable]

Don't use Applet, but rather use a JApplet. Create ImageIcons with your images, use a JLabel to hold the ImageIcons and add the MouseListener to the JLabel.

[Junky]

You could display the image on a Label and add the MouseListener to the Label and not the Applet.

catch (Exception e) {}

Also, never never do this. At the very least make a call to printStackTrace so you can see if an excetpion occurred or not. I have seen many people post code like this and complain that their program does nothing. Reason is that an exception occurred but the program ignores it and continues on as if everything is OK.

[mine0926]

I have not used applet before, but as what I can see is you add mouselistener to Applet. If you can put Images into JPanel then add the mouselistener to it.

[Fubarable]

I have not used applet before, but as what I can see is you add mouselistener to Applet. If you can put Images into JPanel then add the mouselistener to it.

It's probably not a good idea for the original poster to mix AWT (Applet) with Swing (the JPanel). If he decides to go to Swing, I don't see how using a JPanel would have an advantage over my suggestion to use a JLabel and simply swap ImageIcons.

[mine0926]

Oh! OK. Have not tried applet before, Thanks for correcting me.

[soulchyld]

Hi again, I have tried to use the JLabel with no luck, I think my code is correct but its not displaying anything , it only displays the label with text (when I modify the code), if I try to display the label with Icon nothing shows

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

public class jLabels extends Applet
{
	

	
	public void init()
	{
	setLayout(new FlowLayout());
	JLabel label1 = new JLabel("Java");
	add(label1);
	ImageIcon fwd = new ImageIcon("up.jpg");
	JLabel forward = new JLabel(fwd);
	add(forward);	
	}
}

[Fubarable]

The most common cause of a problem in this situation is that you're not looking for the image in the correct location. Since you're using an applet and will likely create a Jar file with the image in the jar file, I'd use resources, not files to get the image, and I'd make sure that the applet is located where I'm looking for it. Something like:

   private static final String IMAGE_RESOURCE = "myImages/image.jpg";

   public void foo() throws IOException {
      BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(getClass().getResourceAsStream(IMAGE_RESOURCE));
      ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon(image);
      JLabel label = new JLabel(icon);
   }