Event dispatching in lightweight component

Question

Hi all
I'm trying to figure out how the event dispatch works for the Swing's lightweight component, and there's something I can't find in the tutorials I found.
Lightweight components doesn't have a peer, so they don't receive directly paint events, but it's their containers that call it inside their paint() method (and that's why one should always write super.paint() if wants to override the container's paint() ).
But what about the other events? I suppose they are received by the container (just as paint events) but I can't understand how that container dispatches them to the right lightweight container...
Thank you

Answer 1

This is what I know about the painting in light weight component in Java.
Lets us concentrate on the button only.
Whenever we press the button we change it s state from 'normal' to 'pressed'. ( Some boolean might be used in the actual code ).
Like wise whenever we do some user inputs to the button ( or any other lightweight component ) it results in the change in the state of the button.
These basic actions are handled by BasicButtonListener.
Now whenever the state of a component is changed it triggers a ChangeEvent associated with that perticular state change.
The implementation of the button is such that it calls the repaint method itself whenever any state of the button changes.
So it is the component itselt who calls its paint method and not its outermost container as you think.
The container of any component can result in repainting of its child component only when it revalidates itself.