Question

My code has a JPanel that contains a JTextPane that covers most of the JPanel. I would like to detect a mouse click if the event occurs anywhere in the panel, but the JTextPane blocks the event, unless I register a listener to it. Is there some easy way to observe the event without adding in listeners for every child?

Answer 1

You can use a Global Event Listener to listen for the mouse events.

You can use:

SwingUtilities.isDescendingFrom(...);

to help determine if the component that generated the event is a child of the panel.