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Newbie problem with Event ... MouseListener

 
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Can anyone take the pain to compile this code and see why my mousePressed() is not getting called. I this program I am trying make a GUI ChessBoard.
Thanks in Advance...
 
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comment out this line, recompile/rerun

//square.setToolTipText(Integer.toString(i));
 
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Michael Dunn wrote:comment out this line, recompile/rerun

//square.setToolTipText(Integer.toString(i));



ThankYou for your fast reply , the problem is solved ! But can you explain me why ??? Whats the problem with that ??
 
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the panel (square) is on top, setToolTipText adds a mouseListener to the panel,
and when fired, consumes the event.

you would need to add a separate mouseListener to the panel, then dispatch the event to the layeredPane
 
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ThankYou again Michael Dunn , you really took me out of this soup !
 
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