How to add mouseListener to classes and not to main, so each object is clic

Question

Hello everyone,
Im developing a window system for applets. I know I could use the jframe windows but I want black outlined semi transparent windows. Im working on the basic stuff now. Basically you call the constructor and send it a string, the constructor will chop up the strings at '^' chars and determine the width and height of the window from there, anyway i can do all that.
Is it possible to have each instance of my appletwindow class implement mouseListener and act upon mouse clicks separately or should i make a window manager and send mouse events from the main to my window manager? Of course if each object could have its own mouse handling that would save me having to iterate through all the objects every time there is a mouse click. Also do i need to extend component? Here is my code so far.
public class AppletWindow extends Component implements MouseListener{
    String winText;
    Rectangle2D bounds;
    boolean isTop;
    Color bgColor;
    Color fgColor;
    int Margin;
    Font font;
    int fontHeight;
    int fontWidth;
    // some other contstructors here
    public AppletWindow(String winText, int x, int y)
        super();
        this.winText = new String();
        this.winText = winText;
        this.Margin = 10;
        this.fontHeight = 12;
        font = (new Font("SansSerif", Font.PLAIN, this.fontHeight));
        this.fontWidth = font.getSize()/2;
        int j = 0;
        int Width = 1;
        int Height = 1;
        for (int i=0; i<this.winText.length()-1; i++){
            if (this.winText.charAt(i) == '^'){    
                if(Width < (i-j)){
                    Width = (i-j);
                j=i;
                Height++;
        } // end for
        this.bounds = new Rectangle(x, y,
                Width*fontWidth+Margin*2,
                Height*10+Margin*2 + fontHeight);
        this.bgColor = Color.BLACK;
        this.fgColor = Color.ORANGE;
        addMouseListener(this);
        boolean isTop = false;
    // all the mouse methods here
    // a method to paint the window to the screenIn my main (applet) i have these lines in the init()
  public void init() {
    this.setSize(800,600);
    testwin.addMouseListener(this);
    addMouseListener(this);
    } but when i click on the window or do anything to it, it does not respond. I had set up inside the appletwindow class so it would print out "applet window" on any mouse actions but none of them print.
Thanks In advance

Answer 1

Well i made my own window manager. So i pass the mouse events from the applet to the window manager and then to all the windows like so
main (the appletscenemanager is my "window manager")
    AppletSceneManager asm = new AppletSceneManager();
    Thread repaintMe;
    // double buffering stuff
    Graphics bufferGraphics;
    Image offscreen;
    Dimension dim;
    public void init() {
    this.setSize(800,600);
    this.setBackground(Color.DARK_GRAY);
    dim = getSize();
    offscreen = createImage(dim.width,dim.height);
    bufferGraphics = offscreen.getGraphics();
    String winText = new String();
    int j = 0;
    int k = 0;
    for (int i=0; i< 25; i++){
        if(j==5){j=0;k++;}
        winText = "Window: " + i + '^';
        asm.addWindow(winText, j*160, k*120,160,120);
        j++;
    addMouseListener(this);
    addMouseMotionListener(this);
    public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {
        //asm.processMouseEvent(e);
    public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) {
        asm.processMouseEvent(e);
    public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
        asm.processMouseEvent(e);
    }then in my applet scene manager (which holds the windows in a linked list)
    public void processMouseEvent(MouseEvent e){
        AppletWindow temp = null;
        System.out.println("e.gid" + e.getID());
        for(AppletWindow aw :appletWindows){
            if(aw.processMouseEvent(e) != null)
            temp = aw;
        if (temp != null){
        appletWindows.remove(temp);
        appletWindows.push(temp);    
    }and in the actual window class its getting a little messy, its hard to tell which window is currenty being acted upon because i find if the window was clicked using .contains so if windows are on top of each other several can .contains(e.getpt()) and then several are "selected" at one time, which causes problems
    public AppletWindow processMouseEvent(MouseEvent e)
    if(dragging)
        moveWindow(e.getPoint());
        if (e.getID() != e.MOUSE_DRAGGED)
            dragging = false;
    if(sizing)
        sizingWindow(e.getPoint());
        if (e.getID() != e.MOUSE_DRAGGED)
            sizing = false;
    if(contains(e.getPoint()))
        // we are in this window pay attention
        if(e.getButton() == e.BUTTON1)
            setTopMost(true);                   // set it to topmost
            alpha = makeComposite(0.9F);        // make this one less transparent
        if(e.getID() == e.MOUSE_DRAGGED && isTopMost()  // are they draggin me?
                && this.titleBounds.contains(e.getPoint())){dragging = true;}
        if(e.getID() == e.MOUSE_DRAGGED && isTopMost()
                    && this.sizeBounds.contains(e.getPoint())){sizing = true;}
        }else{
        setTopMost(false);
        alpha = makeComposite(0.5F);
        return this; // let them know it was us !
    return null; // it aint my fault!
    // window operations stuff
    public void moveWindow(Point pt){
        this.bounds.x = (int)(pt.getX() - (this.bounds.width/2));
        this.bounds.y = (int)(pt.getY()-5);
        this.titleBounds.setBounds(this.bounds.x, this.bounds.y,
                this.bounds.width, fontHeight);
        this.sizeBounds.setBounds((int)this.bounds.getMaxX()-resizeWH,
                (int)this.bounds.getMaxY()-resizeWH,resizeWH, resizeWH);
    public void sizingWindow(Point pt){
        if((pt.x - bounds.getMaxX()) > 0 && (pt.y - bounds.getMaxY()) > 0){
        this.bounds.width = (int)(bounds.width + (pt.x - bounds.getMaxX()));
        this.bounds.height = (int)(bounds.height + (pt.y - bounds.getMaxY()));
        }else{
        this.bounds.width = (int)(bounds.width - (bounds.getMaxX() - pt.x));
        this.bounds.height = (int)(bounds.height - (bounds.getMaxY() - pt.y));       
        this.titleBounds.setBounds(this.bounds.x, this.bounds.y,
                this.bounds.width, fontHeight);
        this.sizeBounds.setBounds((int)this.bounds.getMaxX()-resizeWH,
                (int)this.bounds.getMaxY()-resizeWH,resizeWH, resizeWH);
    public boolean contains(Point pt)
        if (bounds.contains(pt))
            return true;
        return false;
    }As anyone can see im getting no feedback what so ever from these forums (as usual), so i might be doing this the very hard way.
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