Gradual Movement on a mouse over

I'm trying to move a movie clip which has my main content in
by having it scroll when a button (the button is independent to the
clip I'm moving) is moused over, so that if the "up" button is
moused over it will slowly move the movieClip in that direction.
At present I have code (attached) that responds to my mouse
being over a button by moving my movieClip (contentArea) unless the
movie clip's x value is already at 0, in which case it stops.
However, it does this all in one go, so it instantly is
setting x to 0.
Does anyone know how I could make this gradual, so say for
every second the mouse is over the scroll area the movie clip would
move a set number of pixels that way? Or am I over complicating
things and there is an easier way to do this? It has to be mouse
over as opposed to clicking as I want it to be intuitive.
I'd be really grateful if anyone could help,
Thanks
Peter

This is good, but how do you find out the correlation between the mouse point and the text position. For example:
If the TextArea displays:
This is a test.
You might get the following if you put your mouse over "test".
Mouse x=261 y=0
Text position = 14
My question is how do I determine that x=261 and text position=14 is "test".
Thanks,
Ashish

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Mouse_pos.vi ‏20 KB
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But it's not a font rendering problem--that much I know.
In iWeb generated sites - probably sites generated by other software as well - upon refresh, there's often a slight bounce or movement and then movement back--this is for text, graphics, whatever. ("onload" command (??).
On my site, in the code - only upon refresh (which is the really weird part) - there's something about the positioning of the primary nav string and its relationship to the pink graphic. At one point, each indiv primary navigation menu would "jump over" the pink graphic. However, we "tied" the indiv. primary nav menus to each other using a fixed table, (I'm not a programmer but from what I've heard, I guess this was a programming strategy that was common prior to css.) Anyway, now the whole string either jumps over the pink line - or doesn't - and - again, upon refresh - it also jumps back to its proper position. When it jumps back to its proper position (relative to pink graphic), mouse-over menus work fine.
It seems to be related to primary nave string's position vis a vis pink graphic - and (weirdly) refresh.
We tried removing the "on-load" command from iWeb's code but that didn't work. Tried removing height commands - but that didn't work. Tried removing all elements from a typical page, one by one - but that didn't work.
Any further help would be appreciated...thank you much again....
Peter
Peter
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Mouse over solution for jdk1.0

hi all,
I am interested in making the equivalent of a mouse over solution for a java applet.
Basically I'll have approximately 100 Rectangle objects representing images on the applet.
When the person moves the mouse over these 100 rectangle objects, i'll use contains() method to determine if the mouse is over the object in question.
If true, the image will be changed to represent the mouse over event .
I thought for a msecond about looping through all the rectangle objects each time the mouse moves. but that seemed impractical since the mouse can move pretty quickly.
It seemed to me the best option was to extend the Rectangle object and put an event listener on it . so that the Rectangle object can be triggered at the same time or individually as needed in response to the mousemove event .
Does anyone have any thoughts about that ?
does anyone know how I would possible implement something like that for java 1.0
thanks
stev

it seems like I have to extend Component some how to get access to enableEvents method.
Here is my class
class ListeningRectangle extends Rectangle{
     public ListeningRectangle(int w, int x, int y, int z, Component c){
          super(w,x,y,z);
          c.enableEvents(AWTEvent.MOUSE_MOTION_EVENT_MASK);
     public void mouseMoved (MouseEvent me) {
     System.out.println("event has been received by rectangle");
I am using this class in conjunction with a java applet (targetted to 1.0-1.1 ).
I'm passing a reference of the applet in to create this ListeningRectangle like this
new ListeningRectangle(a,b,c,d,this);
my objective is to have about 100 different rectangle areas defined on the java applet.
and when the person moves the moves the mouse of the applet rapidly, only the appropriate ListeningRectangle object would respond.
any ideas on how to get this done ? ?
The full code is below
stephen
================================
full source code below
import java.applet.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class TestEventHandler extends Applet implements Runnable{
     ///variables
     public static Color bgColor = Color.blue.darker();
     private Thread thread;
     public Graphics offGfx;
     private Image offImg;
     private Image basicOffImg;
     public static int xlen;
     public static int ylen;
public ListeningRectangle lr;
     ///methods
     public void init(){
     xlen = size().width;
     ylen = size().height;
     basicOffImg = createImage(xlen, ylen);
     offImg = basicOffImg;
     offGfx = offImg.getGraphics();
     setBackground(bgColor);
     offGfx.setColor(bgColor);
     offGfx.fillRect(0, 0, xlen, ylen);
     offGfx.setFont(new Font("Arial, Helvetica, Helv", 1, 15));
     FontMetrics fontmetrics = offGfx.getFontMetrics();
     offGfx.setColor(Color.white);
     String s = "pleaseWait";
     offGfx.drawString(s, xlen / 2 - fontmetrics.stringWidth(s) / 2, ylen / 2);
          lr = new ListeningRectangle(20,20,50,50,this);
          offGfx.fillRect(20,20,50,50);
     public void start(){
     if(thread == null)
          thread = new Thread(this);
          thread.start();
     public void run(){
          while(thread != null){
     try
          Thread.sleep(100L);
          catch(InterruptedException _ex) { }
     public void stop()
          if(thread!=null)
     thread = null;
     public void update(Graphics g){ paint(g);}
     public void paint(Graphics g){
     g.drawImage(offImg, 0, 0, null);
public boolean mouseDrag(Event event, int i, int j)
if(true)
return false;//means ripple
} else
return true;//means do not ripple for jvm1.0
public boolean mouseMove(Event event, int i, int j)
if(true)
return false;
} else
return false;
class ListeningRectangle extends Rectangle{
     public ListeningRectangle(int w, int x, int y, int z, Applet c){
          super(w,x,y,z);
          c.enableEvents(AWTEvent.MOUSE_MOTION_EVENT_MASK);
     public void mouseMoved (MouseEvent me) {
     System.out.println("event has been received by rectangle");
}//end of class

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