Question

I am adding JPanel to JFrame on a JButton click. It adds the JPanel to the frame. The button will keep on adding the JPanel to JFrame on click event. There are no limitations. I am adding the JPanels to a List as well when a button is clicked. I did this because of adding the MouseMotionListener using for loop to handle Dragging of JPanel’s.

The problem which I am facing now is with the drag. When I add the first JPanel with a click and if I drag it, it follows the Mouse cursor coordinates properly. When I add a second JPanel, it too follows the mouse perfectly. After adding the second, if try to drag the first JPanel the first JPanel seems to follow different coordinates like, the initial position will change to some other location. I don’t know where have I done the mistake. Please help me resolve this problem. Please go through the code below.

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseMotionAdapter;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;


public class MyFrame extends JFrame {

    JButton jb;
    List<JPanel> mypanels = new ArrayList<JPanel>();
    public MyFrame() {
        jb = new JButton("Add Panel");
        jb.setBounds(10, 10, 100, 50);
        setSize(new Dimension(1000, 600));
        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setLayout(null);
        add(jb);
        setVisible(true);
        initialize();
    }


    public void initialize() {

        jb.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {

            @Override
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                JPanel panel = new JPanel();
                panel.setBounds(150,150,200,200);
                panel.setBackground(Color.black);
                mypanels.add(panel);
                add(panel);
                repaint();
                handleDrag();
            }
        });

    }

    public void handleDrag(){
        for(int i=0;i<mypanels.size();i++) {
            final int j = i;
            mypanels.get(i).addMouseMotionListener(new MouseMotionAdapter() {

                @Override
                public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent me) {
                    me.translatePoint(me.getComponent().getLocation().x, me.getComponent().getLocation().y);
                    mypanels.get(j).setLocation(me.getX(), me.getY());
                }

            });
        }
    }

    public static void main(String args[]) {

        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                new MyFrame();
            }
        });

    }


}

Answer 1

• maybe have look at Moving Windows by @camickr

• do not combine ComponentMover with ComponentResizer in the same time