Co-ordinate problem

Question

ok i am trying to make a simple paint program and i have got stuck when trying to display the coordinates the mouse is pointing to.
i have a mouseMotionListener in one class which gets the point of the mouse when it enters or moves inside the canvas, like so:
public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e)
p = e.getPoint();
public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e)
p = e.getPoint();
}p is a point which i somehow want to pass into another class to be displayed outside of the canvas. But p is staying at (0,0) (what it was initialized as).
does anyone know what could be causing this?
i need a fresh brain and a cup of tea!

Answer 1

yup i already put
System.out.println("entered");
and likewise for moved and they worked fine
i dont really understand the second part of what you said there,
this is the code that recieves the point (the method called updateCo):
public class coBox extends JPanel
public static int x, y;
public String coord = "(" + x + "," + y + ")";
public coBox()
x = 0;
y = 0;
public void updateCo(Point p)
x = p.x;
y = p.y;
public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
g.drawString(coord, 30, 20);
}