Question

I’m trying to get the mouse move event from external applet that has been called like this:

Applet loader = (Applet) new URLClassLoader(
            new URL[] { new File(System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir") + "aoo.jar").toURL() }).loadClass("class").newInstance();
        loader.setStub(this);
        loader.init();
                    loader.addMouseMotionListener(a);
                    loader.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(788, 560));
                    loader.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(788, 560));

But for some reason the mouse event listener doesnt work.
Is there any way to capture the mouse move event from the external animated applet?

                    getContentPane().removeAll();
        getContentPane().add(loader, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        getContentPane().add(jt, BorderLayout.SOUTH);

This is my jframe content pane is it helps.

Thank you

Answer 1

Generally events in AWT don’t bubble up. (In fact mouse events have a bizarre behaviour where they do bubble up iff there are no mouse listeners on the child component.) Generally the way to hack this sort of thing is with a “glass pane” (google it), or you can use an AWTEventListener on the Toolkit.