Hovering mouse over a button and painting

Question

The following code is what I have to try to paint a rectangle when ever I hover over a button. This rectangle will show a brief description of what the button will do. I'm doing something similar when pressing the help button and hovering over something a description in a rectangle shows up. But I cannot get the paint method to work. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to fix this.
public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {
                    //System.out.println("asdf");
                    showMessage("Test");
               private void showMessage(String string)
                    public void paint(Graphics g)
                         g.fillRect(25, 20, 20, 20);
                         g.drawString("Hello", 25, 20);
                    //System.out.println(string);
               }

Answer 1

jadescor wrote:
The following code is what I have to try to paint a rectangle when ever I hover over a button. This rectangle will show a brief description of what the button will do. I'm doing something similar when pressing the help button and hovering over something a description in a rectangle shows up. But I cannot get the paint method to work. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to fix this. You really need to read the Sun Java Graphics tutorial as your assumptions on how painting works is not correct. For instance, you shouldn't be calling the paint method directly.
Also, do you want to be doing this Graphics? Would it be easier to just add a tool tip to your button (i.e., use setToolTipText(...))?
Good luck.
Edited by: Encephalopathic on Apr 19, 2008 8:20 PM