Trying to implement autoscrolling on a jpanel that has a jscrollpane.

[Max Diaz]

The effect I am trying to get is when the user has his/her mouse pointer at a certain pixel location the scroll bar automatically scrolls to the right until, they mouse isnt at that position anymore. Here is what I have so far...

    
public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {
		
		if(e.getX() >= 900){
                                //gets the current viewport x value and then increments 5 pixels to it
				scrollPane.getViewport().setViewPosition(new Point((int)scrollPane.getViewport().getViewPosition().getX()+5,0));

		}
		System.out.println(e.getX() + "," + e.getY());
		
	}

This works somewhat. The problem is that the mouseMoved event is only fired when the mouse is moved, so to get the scrollpane to scroll you have to constantly move the mouse. Now I looked at other mouse events like mouseEnter or mouseDragged but they have the same problem. Anyone have any ideas?

[Rob Camick]

JComponent.setAutoScrolls(...);