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Troubles with mouse events in Java 2D

 
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Hi everyone, I'm new to the forums, so please be nice and tell me if I've made this topic on the wrong place or something like that!

I have some programming experience in C++ and Actionscript 3, but these days I got a sudden wish to learn java and here I am!

First, I'll tell you what my application should do, and then I'll tell what it isn't doing:
I need an application that draws some circles on the screen and, when two circles are clicked (one after another), a line is plotted between them. Simple, right?

I'm using swing to make an interface and Java2D to handle the 'draw circles'-stuff. I must say there was a hard path to take 'till this worked, but at the moment my application does this: reads an text file with the circles coordinates and plots them on the screen.

I'm having trouble with the Mouse Listenning methods. In other languages I have worked, actionscript mainly, I was able to add mouse event listeners to almost anything. Unfortunately, it seems I can't add a mouse event listener to a shape object (I'm using an Ellipse2D). After a day searching for solutions, I got nothing. The best I could do was to add a mouse listener to the frame on which the circles are drawn, and try to identify the clicked ellipse with the "contains" method. Something like: if(ellipse.contains(event.getPoint())){ do something }
But that isn't working either. I'll show you a simple picture of what's happening:



If I click in (a) or in (b), it works: these points are inside the ellipse. However, in (c) (which, in my vision, is inside the ellipse) the above statement returns false!

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough, but thanks for lending me some of your time on this issue! It's a really simple application, but this mouse event things are giving me a hard time. In AS3, I could treat anything like a button (yeah, that's not a right thing to do, but when you are in need there are some things that should be done), and though some button methods worked for me on java (with ActionListener), I wasn't able to use them on the shapes. I thought it could be done with something like circle.addActionListener(methodToCall()), but it's not like that.

I'm willing to change all my code: maybe I'm 'thinking wrong' and using shapes to draw isn't the right way to address the problem. However, it seems to me that this is the right approach, since I basically need some circles and some lines on the screen.

I thank you for any advices.
 
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Answered in cross-post here: http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5449509&tstart=0

OP, please read the FAQ, and in particular the one about cross-posting without notification. It will explain the issues involved.

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Luck.
 
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