Methods for Mouse Events

• All mouse events report the x and y location of the mouse in pixels:

  • event.getX ( ) ;
  • event.getY ( ) ;

• You can also obtain the click count for double or event triple clicks:

  • event.getClickCount ( ) ;

• You can distinguish between different mouse buttons:

  • ( event.getModifiers ( ) & InputEvent.BUTTON3_MASK ) != 0tests for a right click of the mouse

• Note that one response to mouse motion can be to change the appearance of the cursor. There are 14 different built-in cursors as well as a Toolkit method to define your own.

  • if ( b ) setCursor ( Cursor.getDefaultCursor ( ) )  else setCursor ( Cursor.getPredefinedCursor ( Cursor.HAND_CURSOR ));

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