Moving a Paddle with the Mouse

[aortell24]

Hello everyone I have a quick question I am trying to construct a Pong game I got the ball moving correctly but I want to move the paddle with the mouse
motion listener mouse Dragged preferred how do I do that I can't find any examples in my book.I just want to move the paddle up and down.I had it set up
with the arrow keys but the paddle does not move fast enuff to keep up with the ball.Thanks ahead of time.Here is my code if it helps.This is just the board class.

public class Board extends JFrame {
    private int boardHeight =585;
    private int boardWidth =790;
    private JPanel panel1 = new JPanel();
    private JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar();
    private JMenu menu = new JMenu("System");
    private JLabel leftPaddle = new JLabel();
    private JLabel rightPaddle = new JLabel();
    private int leftPaddleY = 240;
    private int rightPaddleY = 250;
    private Ball ball = new Ball();
    Timer timer = new Timer(100,new TimerEventHandler());


    Board()
    {
        timer.start();
        this.setLayout(null);
        panel1.setLayout(null);
        panel1.setBounds(0, 0, 800, 600);
        this.add(panel1);
        this.setJMenuBar(menuBar);
        menuBar.add(menu);
        panel1.add(ball);
        panel1.setBackground(Color.BLACK);
        Action exitAction = new AbstractAction("Exit") {
            @Override
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent actionEvent)
            {
                System.exit(0);
            }
        };
        menu.add(exitAction);
        leftPaddle.setOpaque(true);
        rightPaddle.setOpaque(true);
        leftPaddle.setBackground(Color.RED);
        rightPaddle.setBackground(Color.BLUE);
        panel1.add(rightPaddle);
        panel1.add(leftPaddle);
        leftPaddle.setBounds(770, 240, 10, 50);
        rightPaddle.setBounds(20, 240, 10, 50);
        leftPaddle.addMouseMotionListener(new paddleEventHandler());

    }
    public boolean ballHitsSides()
    {
        if((ball.getX() >= boardWidth)|| (ball.getX() <= 0))
        {
            return true;
        }
        else
            return false;
    }
    public boolean ballHitsTopOrBottom()
    {
        if((ball.getY() >= boardHeight ) || (ball.getY() <= 0))
        {
            return true;
        }    
        else
            return false;
    }
    class TimerEventHandler implements ActionListener
    {
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent actionEvent)
        {

            ball.setBounds(ball.getXPoint()+ ball.getXSpeed(), ball.getYPoint() + ball.getYSpeed(),15,15);
            ball.update();
            if(ballHitsSides())
            {
                ball.setXSpeed(-ball.getXSpeed());

            }
            if(ballHitsTopOrBottom())
            {
                ball.setYSpeed(-ball.getYSpeed());
            }
            if(ballHitsPaddle1())
            {
                ball.setYSpeed(-ball.getYSpeed());
            }
            if(ballHitsPaddle2())
            {
                ball.setYSpeed(-ball.getYSpeed());
            }
            System.out.print("\t" +ball.getXPoint());
            System.out.print("\t" + ball.getYPoint());
            System.out.print("\t" +ball.getXSpeed());
            System.out.print("\t" + ball.getYSpeed());
            System.out.println(ballHitsTopOrBottom());
            System.out.println();
            repaint();
        }

    }
    class paddleEventHandler implements MouseMotionListener
    {
        @Override
        public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent mouseEvent)
        {
            leftPaddleY = mouseEvent.getY();
        }
        @Override
        public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent mouseEvent)
        {

        }
    }
 }

[awinston]

How to Write a Mouse-Motion Listener (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing > Writing Event Listeners)

[aortell24]

Thanks alot That is exactly what I needed.