JPanels are not reading Mouse Events

Question

I created a basic Tic Tac Toe game, with individual "TicPanel"s inside a JPanel inside a JFrame object, however, none of the mouse events are working? Is it because the JFrame is receiving and doing nothing with the MouseEvents?
    private class TicPanel extends JPanel implements MouseListener
        private int owner; //-1 = none, 0 = O, 1 = X
        private Graphics g;
        private int num;
        ActionListener listener;
         * Constructor
        public TicPanel(int num)
            this.num = num;
            g = getGraphics();
            owner = -1;
        public void setX()
            owner = 1;
            g.drawLine(0,0,getWidth(),getHeight());
        public void setO()
            owner = 0;
            g.drawOval(0,0,getWidth(),getHeight());
        public int getOwner()
            return owner;
        public void mousePressed(MouseEvent evt){}
        public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent evt){}
        public void mouseExited(MouseEvent evt){}
        public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent evt){}
        public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent evt)
            System.out.println("works");
            listener.actionPerformed(new ActionEvent(this, num, ""));
            setX();
        public void addActionListener(ActionListener listener)
            this.listener = listener;
    }   Edited by: TheWhiteLynx on Aug 10, 2009 2:16 PM

Answer 1

TheWhiteLynx wrote:
I created a basic Tic Tac Toe game, with individual "TicPanel"s inside a JPanel inside a JFrame object, however, none of the mouse events are working? Is it because the JFrame is receiving and doing nothing with the MouseEvents?I don't see anywhere that you are adding a MouseListener to anything. Usually this is done with the addMouseListener(...) method.
Oh, and please read the Sun graphics tutorial as this is not the way to do graphics in Swing. You do not want to get the Graphics object via getGraphics method but instead do your painting in a paintComponent override method and get your Graphics object from the parameter passed to this method. The tutorials will explain all.
Edited by: Encephalopathic on Aug 10, 2009 2:29 PM