How can I get the events from a java program?

Question

I want to make a monitor to watch a java program.How can I get the events from the GUI of this program some as mouse cliking, keyinput. So I can watch these in my monitor.
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,
To put a monitor to the events occuring in the GHUI u need to register required components with the appropriate EventListeners.
Liek if u want to get notified when a mouse is clicked, then u need to add The MouseListener to the component which u want to be monitored.
Say
myFrame which is the JFrame object which shuld be monitored for the events.
Then in ur program u have to add following code
myFrame.addMouseListener( someObectReference );
Here the someObjectReference should be an instance to a concrete class ..i.e. U write a class like the following
public class MyMouseListener implements MouseListener {
// override the followig methods
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent me){ sop("MOUSE CLICKED ON THE FRAME");}
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent me){}
public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent me){}
If u dont want to use another class for listening to the events. Then u can make teh current class monitor the events. To do so ur class should implement the appropriate listener and should override the required methods.
and u should say myFrame.addMouseListenet( this );
thats it