Mouse Drag Box & get coordinates

Hi, is there a API to do this. If you click the mouse button and drag it I want a box to appear on the screen. When they release I want to get the coordinates of the box. I have seen it commonly done in programs like Photoshop and even in java applets on the web. I want to know if theres a API to do this before writing it myself. Thanks.

should be possible using moue and mousemotion listeners.
You check if currently a dragging happens and if so drawrect.
It could get slow and make jumps if you have lots of graphic behind since you have to redraw that every time.

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Mouse dragged event with unexpected coordinates

I am dragging the mouse on a half circle from the middle left to the top middle. This results in mouse events with the coordinates form (10,90) ->(100,10)
Letting the mouse go and then dragging it further to the left, the coordinates in the of the event are similar than the starting point of the first mouse drag event.
Can anyone shed some light on this peculiar behavior?

First of, I have to apologize for the example not being as minimalistic as it might be, but on the plus side, I know now why this happens, I just don't know how to work around it.
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package javafxtest;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.beans.property.DoubleProperty;
import javafx.beans.property.SimpleDoubleProperty;
import javafx.event.ActionEvent;
import javafx.event.EventHandler;
import javafx.geometry.Dimension2D;
import javafx.geometry.Point2D;
import javafx.scene.Group;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Button;
import javafx.scene.control.Label;
import javafx.scene.input.MouseEvent;
import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.scene.shape.Circle;
import javafx.scene.shape.Polygon;
import javafx.scene.shape.Rectangle;
import javafx.scene.shape.Shape;
import javafx.scene.transform.Rotate;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
* @author andi
public class HandleRotation extends Application {
    private DoubleProperty currentRotation;
    private ArrayList<Double> angles;
    @Override
    public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
        currentRotation = new SimpleDoubleProperty(this, "currentRotation", 10);
        SteeringWheelGroup background = new SteeringWheelGroup(200);
        background.setManaged(false);
        Group g = new Group(background);
        final Point2D centerPoint = new Point2D(100, 100);
        angles = new ArrayList<>(3);
        angles.add(190.0);
        angles.add(270.0);
        angles.add(350.0);
        double step = (180.0 - 2 * currentRotation.doubleValue()) / (angles.size() - 1);
        int radius = 100;
        final int yTranslation = 15; // might be due to the labels
        Polygon handle = createHandle(centerPoint, radius, yTranslation);
        g.getChildren().add(handle);
        StackPane root = new StackPane();
        Scene scene = new Scene(g, 300, 250);
        primaryStage.setTitle("Handle Rotation!");
        primaryStage.setScene(scene);
        primaryStage.show();
     * Calculate the base point for the label. This is the point on the arc, matching the angle.
     * @param center point of the circle
     * @param radius radius of the circle
     * @param angle in degree in [0,180]
     * @return Point on the circle
    Point2D calculateBasePoint(Point2D center, double radius,
            double angle) {
        float newX = (float) (center.getX() + radius * Math.cos(Math.toRadians(angle)));
        float newY = (float) (center.getY() + radius * Math.sin(Math.toRadians(angle)));
        return new Point2D(newX, newY);
     * Create the polygon that represents the handle
     * @param centerPoint
     * @param radius
     * @return
    private Polygon createHandle(final Point2D centerPoint, int radius, final int yTranslation) {
        double baseAngle = 180;
        Point2D p1 = calculateBasePoint(centerPoint, radius, baseAngle - 5);
        Point2D p2 = calculateBasePoint(centerPoint, radius, baseAngle + 2);
        Point2D p3 = calculateBasePoint(centerPoint, radius*0.65, baseAngle + 2);
        Point2D p4 = calculateBasePoint(centerPoint, radius*0.65, baseAngle - 7);
        double[] points = {p1.getX(), p1.getY(), p2.getX(), p2.getY(), p3.getX(), p3.getY(), p4.getX(), p4.getY()};
                  Polygon polygon = new Polygon(points);
//        polygon.setOpacity(0);
        polygon.setTranslateY(-yTranslation);
        final Rotate rotationTransform = new Rotate(currentRotation.doubleValue(), centerPoint.getX(), centerPoint.getY());
        polygon.getTransforms().add(rotationTransform);
        polygon.setOnMouseDragged(new EventHandler<MouseEvent>() {
            @Override
            public void handle(MouseEvent event) {
                if (event.getY() < centerPoint.getY()) {
System.out.println("Event: "+event);
                                                   Point2D point = new Point2D((float)event.getX(), (float)event.getY());
                    double newAngle = angleBetween2Lines(centerPoint, point);
                    if (newAngle < 0) {
                        newAngle = (90 + newAngle)+ 90;
System.out.println("Set angle on mouse drag: "+newAngle);
                    if (newAngle < 10) {
                        newAngle = 10;
                    if (newAngle > 170) {
                        newAngle = 170;
                    currentRotation.set(newAngle);
        polygon.setOnMouseReleased(new EventHandler<MouseEvent>() {
            @Override
            public void handle(MouseEvent event) {
                snapToNearestAngle();
                rotationTransform.setAngle(currentRotation.doubleValue());
        return polygon;
     * Snap to the correct angle. Correct angle is angle belonging to the nearest label.
    void snapToNearestAngle() {
        double currentAngle = currentRotation.doubleValue() + 180;
        double currentMin = 360;
        int minIndex = 0;
System.out.println("Current rotation is "+currentAngle);
        for (int i = 0; i < angles.size(); i++) {
            double angle = angles.get(i);
            double diff = Math.abs(angle - currentAngle);
            if (diff < currentMin) {
                currentMin = diff;
                minIndex = i;
System.out.println("new minDifference at "+i+": "+diff);
        Double destinationAngle = angles.get(minIndex);
System.out.println("DestinationAngle is "+currentAngle+" -> "+(destinationAngle - 180));
        if (destinationAngle < 180 + 10 || destinationAngle > 360 - 10) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("Angle is out of range: "+currentRotation.doubleValue()+" -> "+destinationAngle);
        currentRotation.set(destinationAngle - 180);
     * Calculate the angle between the vector horizontally to the left from the center
     * and the current point.
     * @param center point
     * @param point current point
     * @return angle in degree
    double angleBetween2Lines(Point2D center, Point2D point) {
        double slope2 = calculateSlope(center, point);
        double angle = Math.atan(slope2);
        if (point.getX() > center.getX()) {
            angle += Math.PI/2;
System.out.println("Slope: "+slope2+" angle "+Math.toDegrees(angle));
        return Math.abs(Math.toDegrees(angle));
     * Caluculate the slope of the line defined by two points.
     * The first point is the center of a circle and the second
     * point roughly lies on the circle.
     * @param center point
     * @param point on the circle
     * @return slope of the connecting line.
    double calculateSlope(Point2D center, Point2D point) {
System.out.println("center="+center+",point="+point);
        double absSlope = Math.abs((point.getY() - center.getY()) / (point.getX() - center.getX()));
        if (point.getY() > center.getY()) {
            if (point.getX() > center.getX()) {
                // bottom right
                return -absSlope;
            } else {
                // bottom left
                return absSlope;
        } else {
            if (point.getX() > center.getX()) {
                // top right
                return absSlope;
            } else {
                // top left
                return -absSlope;
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     * main() serves only as fallback in case the application can not be
     * launched through deployment artifacts, e.g., in IDEs with limited FX
     * support. NetBeans ignores main().
     * @param args the command line arguments
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        launch(args);
   private class SteeringWheelGroup extends Group {
        public SteeringWheelGroup(int destinationWidth) {
            int topPadding = 0;
            Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(getImageWidth(), getImageWidth(), Color.RED);
            double scale = destinationWidth / rect.getWidth();
            rect.setScaleX(scale);
            rect.setScaleY(scale);
            Circle circle = new Circle(getImageWidth()/2, getImageWidth()/2, getImageWidth()/2, Color.BLUE);
            circle.setScaleX(scale);
            circle.setScaleY(scale);
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            //setTranslateY(-h+topPadding);
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Here is how you can reproduce my effect:
Grab the black handle
Drag the mouse top and right until you approach the angle -90 (have an eye out on the console log)
Let the mouse go: the handle will snap to 90 degree
Grab the handle a second time and move further right
You will see that the angle printed out do not match what you expect.
Let the mouse go, the Handle snaps back to it's original position
As the rotation does not happen around the polygon's center, I have to use a Rotaion effect, which is applied. While I can drag the shape from the rotated location the dragging is always measured from its base position.
So what can I do to work around this?
final Rotate rotationTransform = new Rotate(currentRotation.doubleValue(), centerPoint.getX(), centerPoint.getY());
polygon.getTransforms().add(rotationTransform);
If worse comes to worst, I can use a circular handle covering everything, then I can rotate around its center, but I would like to avoid this.

My wireless usb mouse freezes or gets stuck on right click/drag

My wireless usb mouse has been getting stuck on right click and/or drag, or the right click just freezes and becomes unusable. Sometimes, my mouse jumps erratically and opens anything that the arrow crosses. I can't use my trackpad because it's broken, but the trackpad itself isn't causing any problems. My system preferences for mouse and trackpad are all fine. My bluetooth is turned off in accordance with the recommendations of people having similar problems. My anti-virus programs don't detect a macro virus or any other problems. Only restarting in safe mode temporarily solves the problem. Does anybody know how to fix this?
Some people have suggested this may be caused by a swollen battery. However, my laptop is a somewhat more recent model and I don't have a portable/removable battery, so I can't solve the problem by taking it out and back in as some people have. Other suggestions?
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I've experimented with other mouses just to see if there'd be a difference, but the problem is definitely with the computer. All plug-in or wireless mouses have the same results. Right click still won't work.

Mouse Drag Issues.

I've been having problems with using my mouse to "click and drag". I'm pretty sure that is is not a hardware issue. It happens in multiple apps and general OS navigation. For example I will attempt to click and drag a folder into another. I wont be able to because the mouse wont stop the drag after I let go of the button. The folder icon gets stuck to the mouse pointer, I have to force quit and relaunch Finder using the keyboard's enter key because I cant use the mouse click to force quit.
The same thing happens in other applications. ie. Im browsing the web. Occasionally when I click a link, an outline drag will get stuck to the mouse. Then I can't click anywhere else to make use of the browser until I force quit it and start over. This happened in an unsaved photoshop document too. In that case I got a large outline drag box stuck to the mouse, and the entire app froze up. Couldn't save with keyboard or mouse, had to force quit and loose my work. That's when I started looking to fix this problem and came here.
Im using the wireless logitech s530 keyboard/mouse combo. I've been using it without a hitch for the last 6 months that I've had my Mac.
Also a side note, I had a fatal error screen (which I've never seen before) for the operating system a couple days ago, for which it instructed me to hold the power button to restart. I don't know if its related but it happened around the same time this mouse/crashing problem started.
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-Bob Funk

This sounds like a driver issue. Have you tried reinstalling your mouse's driver or checking for an update on the Logitech website? I'd recommend visiting their downloads site and install the latest driver for your mouse. Hopefully that will work. One way to test this would be to boot into safe mode by holding "shift" at bootup. When the system boots see if the mouse behaves the same way, and then restart the computer normally to restore normal non-safemode function.

Mouse object X & Y coordinates

Mouse object X and Y data members report the coordinates relative to
computer screen.
Is there a way to get mouse X and Y coordinates relative to Lookout
window similar to Panel object x and y data members?
Sergei

Hi John,
Unfortunately Mouse1.X & Y values will change when
you resize/move/drag the Lookout window.
In other words the mouse object x & y
members are relative to computer screen
while Panel object x and y members are
relative to Lookout window.
I don't think its very wise having
two different coordinate systems in Lookout.
At least there should be a way to get the Lookout
window position (offset) within the computer screen
to make any practical use of these different coordinate
systems.
Sergei
John Dunlop wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You could use an expression like :
>
> Mouse1.X-Panel1.X
>
> which puts it relative to the panel. But there isnt a Lookout system
> XY datamember. The panel XY members take this into account.
>
> John
>

AIR application object - mouse drag problem

Hi,
We face the following problem. Attached herewith are code sample and simulation for the problem. Would be great if someone could help us.
Problem: Objects created in AIR application experience mouse drag problem.
To simulate the problem please execute the sample application, a grey box (object) appears on the screen. Hold down left and right mouse buttons and drag the object and release both the mouse buttons. Object sticks to mouse pointer and moves along with mouse pointer to wherever it is dragged.
Steps to Reproduce - Hold down left and right mouse buttons and drag the object and later release both the mouse buttons. Notice Object sticks to mouse pointer and moves along with mouse pointer to wherever it is dragged. Object stops to move along with mouse pointer after sometime, then move the mouse pointer to the object and see that it sticks to pointer again and gets dragged along with the pointer.
Actual Result - Object sticks to mouse pointer and moves along with mouse pointer to wherever it is dragged.
Expected Result - Object should not stick to mouse pointer even after the mouse buttons are released.
Due to problems with uploading the attachment here, please send a email to the following email-id ([email protected]) and I shall send the attachment in response.
Thanks in advance.

After some research, it seems this problem has been there for years with Bootcamp. Hope Apple can develop a better touchpad driver soon.

Move tool issue : Command key + mouse dragging for moving any layer not working in PS CC

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Please help.

Usually when a tool is not working as expected, a Reset of that tool might be the answer.
Select the move tool in the toolbox,
Go to the move tool icon on the top left of the screen (just above the toolbox in its' Option bar) and Ctrl-click on it to get the Reset menu.
Click on Reset Tool.

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In our application we are using applets in containing in IFRAMES in IE to display different type of graphs and animations etc. User can open/close these Applets and iframes to navigate from one data view to other. During this navigation sometimes mouse drag event stops and all drag related operations like scrolls etc stops responding to drag operations in all applets in same JVM.
My investigation shows that swing component hierarchy gets corrupted somehow and this exception is thrown
EventMulticaster.eventDispatched(Toolkit.java:2244)
     at java.awt.Toolkit.notifyAWTEventListeners(Toolkit.java:2203)
     at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4528)
     at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2099)
     at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4460)
     at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4603)
     at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4255)
     at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4168)
     at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2085)
     at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4460)
     at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:599)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:174)
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peerComponents in Container class is returning null on call to getLocationOnScreen that causes this exception.
I fixed the issue in awt library but ORACLE license terms don't allow redistribution of modified version of awt.
Please help me fix this issue in applet code or suggest me to bypass license restrictions.
Thanks in advance!
Luqman

877922 wrote:
peerComponents in Container class is returning null on call to getLocationOnScreen that causes this exception.
I fixed the issue in awt library but ORACLE license terms don't allow redistribution of modified version of awt.Something Oracle do allow is to raise a bug report. On that report they invite you to post a work-around or fix. That would be the place to put the fix you have devised. Oracle will (supposedly) fix it, then you (and everyone else) can enjoy the fix as a free upgrade in the next version.
They also offer 'support contracts' (AFAIU) in which you might pursue your own immediate fixes. But raise the bug report anyway.

Bug: lost selection after a mouse drag

To reproduce:
- select many entities in a diagram
- move them a bit via mouse drag
what happens
- the group loses focus. If you've been unfortunate, you've selected non-contiguous entities (via CTRL-click over) and now they are somewhere in the diagram, behind other entities, etc. and you can't move them back because you lost the group selection.
what should happen
- after the move, the group is still selected
Edited by: T. on Jun 6, 2011 5:06 AM

I have seen this too. I discovered that once they are all selected (ctrl-A) you need to be careful to then click inside one of the entities to do the drag otherwise it does get messed up. Undo fixes it sometimes. Other times I have exited without saving to get back to a previous arrangement.

Mouse Drag in JDialog produces Mouse Enter & Mouse Exit events in JFrame.

Hi, all.
Do I have a misconception here? When I drag the mouse in a modal JDialog, mouseEntered and mouseExited events are being delivered to JComponents in the parent JFrame that currently happens to be beneath that JDialog. I would not have expected any events to be delivered to any component not in the modal JDialog while that JDialog is displayed.
I submitted this as a bug many months ago, and have heard nothing back from Sun, nor can I find anything similar to this in BugTraq.
Here is sample code:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
* This class demonstrates what I believe are TWO bugs in Mouse Event handling in Swing
* 1.1.3_1, 1.1.3_2, 1.1.3_3, and 1.4.0.
* 1) When a MODAL JDialog is being displayed, and the cursor is DRAGGED from the JDialog
*    into and across the parent JFrame, Mouse Enter and Mouse Exit events are given to
*    the parent JFrame and/or it's child components. It is my belief that NO such events
*    should be delivered, that modal dialogs should prevent ANY user interaction with any
*    component NOT in the JDialog. Am I crazy?
*    You can reproduce this simply by running the main() method, then dragging the cursor
*    from the JDialog into and across the JFrame.
* 2) When a MODAL JDialog is being displayed, and the cursor is DRAGGED across the JDialog,
*    Mouse Enter and Mouse Exit events are given to the parent JFrame and/or it's child
*    components. This is in addition to the problem described above.
*    You can reproduce this by dismissing the initial JDialog displayed when the main()
*    method starts up, clicking on the "Perform Action" button in the JFrame, then dragging
*    the cursor around the displayed JDialog.
* The Mouse Enter and Mouse Exit events are reported via System.err.
public class DragTest
    extends JFrame
    public static void main(final String[] p_args)
        new DragTest();
    public DragTest()
        super("JFrame");
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            public void windowClosing(final WindowEvent p_evt)
                DragTest.this.dispose();
            public void windowClosed(final WindowEvent p_evt)
                System.exit(0);
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            public void mouseEntered(final MouseEvent p_evt)
                System.err.println(">>> Mouse Entered: " + ((Component)p_evt.getSource()).getName() );
            public void mouseExited(final MouseEvent p_evt)
                System.err.println(">>> Mouse Exited: " + ((Component)p_evt.getSource()).getName() );
        JPanel l_panel1 = new JPanel();
        l_panel1.setLayout( new BorderLayout(50,50) );
        l_panel1.setName("JFrame Panel");
        l_panel1.addMouseListener(l_mouseListener);
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        l_button = new JButton("JFrame North Button");
        l_button.setName(l_button.getText());
        l_button.addMouseListener(l_mouseListener);
        l_panel1.add(l_button, BorderLayout.NORTH);
        l_button = new JButton("JFrame South Button");
        l_button.setName(l_button.getText());
        l_button.addMouseListener(l_mouseListener);
        l_panel1.add(l_button, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
        l_button = new JButton("JFrame East Button");
        l_button.setName(l_button.getText());
        l_button.addMouseListener(l_mouseListener);
        l_panel1.add(l_button, BorderLayout.EAST);
        l_button = new JButton("JFrame West Button");
        l_button.setName(l_button.getText());
        l_button.addMouseListener(l_mouseListener);
        l_panel1.add(l_button, BorderLayout.WEST);
        l_button = new JButton("JFrame Center Button");
        l_button.setName(l_button.getText());
        l_button.addMouseListener(l_mouseListener);
        l_panel1.add(l_button, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        JButton l_actionButton = l_button;
        Container l_contentPane = this.getContentPane();
        l_contentPane.setLayout( new BorderLayout() );
        l_contentPane.add(l_panel1, BorderLayout.NORTH);
        JPanel l_panel2 = new JPanel();
        l_panel2.setName("JDialog Panel");
        l_panel2.addMouseListener(l_mouseListener);
        l_panel2.setLayout( new BorderLayout(50,50) );
        l_panel2.add( new JButton("JDialog North Button"), BorderLayout.NORTH );
        l_panel2.add( new JButton("JDialog South Button"), BorderLayout.SOUTH );
        l_panel2.add( new JButton("JDialog East Button"),   BorderLayout.EAST   );
        l_panel2.add( new JButton("JDialog West Button"),   BorderLayout.WEST   );
        l_panel2.add( new JButton("JDialog Center Button"), BorderLayout.CENTER );
        final JDialog l_dialog = new JDialog(this, "JDialog", true);
        WindowListener l_windowListener2 = new WindowAdapter() {
            public void windowClosing(WindowEvent p_evt)
                l_dialog.dispose();
        l_dialog.addWindowListener(l_windowListener2);
        l_dialog.setDefaultCloseOperation(DO_NOTHING_ON_CLOSE);
        l_dialog.getContentPane().add(l_panel2, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        l_dialog.pack();
        Action l_action = new AbstractAction() {
            { putValue(Action.NAME, "Perform Action (open dialog)"); }
            public void actionPerformed(final ActionEvent p_evt)
                l_dialog.setVisible(true);
        l_actionButton.setAction(l_action);
        this.addWindowListener(l_windowListener);
        this.pack();
        this.setLocation(100,100);
        this.setVisible(true);
        l_dialog.setVisible(true);
}(Too bad blank lines are stripped, eh?)
Thanks in advance for any insights you may be able to provide.
---Mark

I guess we can think of this as one problem. When mouse dragged, JFrame also (Parent) receives events. If i understood correctly, what happens here is, Modal dialog creates its own event pump and Frame will be having its own. See the source code of Dialog's show() method. It uses an interface called Conditional to determine whether to block the events or yield it to parent pump.
Here is the Conditional code and show method code from java.awt.dialog for reference
package java.awt;
* Conditional is used by the EventDispatchThread's message pumps to
* determine if a given pump should continue to run, or should instead exit
* and yield control to the parent pump.
* @version 1.3 02/02/00
* @author David Mendenhall
interface Conditional {
    boolean evaluate();
/////show method
    public void show() {
        if (!isModal()) {
            conditionalShow();
        } else {
            // Set this variable before calling conditionalShow(). That
            // way, if the Dialog is hidden right after being shown, we
            // won't mistakenly block this thread.
            keepBlocking = true;
            if (conditionalShow()) {
                // We have two mechanisms for blocking: 1. If we're on the
                // EventDispatchThread, start a new event pump. 2. If we're
                // on any other thread, call wait() on the treelock.
                if (Toolkit.getEventQueue().isDispatchThread()) {
                    EventDispatchThread dispatchThread =
                        (EventDispatchThread)Thread.currentThread();
                       * pump events, filter out input events for
                       * component not belong to our modal dialog.
                       * we already disabled other components in native code
                       * but because the event is posted from a different
                       * thread so it's possible that there are some events
                       * for other component already posted in the queue
                       * before we decide do modal show.
                    dispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(new Conditional() {
                        public boolean evaluate() {
                            return keepBlocking && windowClosingException == null;
                    }, this);
                } else {
                    synchronized (getTreeLock()) {
                        while (keepBlocking && windowClosingException == null) {
                            try {
                                getTreeLock().wait();
                            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                                break;
                if (windowClosingException != null) {
                    windowClosingException.fillInStackTrace();
                    throw windowClosingException;
    }I didn't get exactly what is happening but this may help to think further

Default implementation of mouse drag event?

Is there any Default implementation of mouse drag event?
Say if the developer does not override and implement mouse drag event, still when the frame is dragged, the frame gets repainted itself in the new position. It indicates some default implementation of mouse drag event, but am unable to find out where it has been implemented.
Why bother when everything works fine? I have a requirement to move my non-modal dialog when the frame is being dragged to another location. I tried adding mousemotionlistener to the frame, to the panel inside a frame, but the event does not reach my custom implementation of mousedrag event.
Any clues?

Moving the frame is a different listener: ComponentListener; add one to the frame. The frame's window decorations are OS territory, so I'm not sure if there's system dependence. I seem to vaguely remember some systems sending an event only after done moving, while others send the event as the frame moves.

Mouse drag, hand tool not working at all!

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References:
(Illustrator CS6) Spacebar stops working seemingly randomly
Spacebar Shortcut: Hand Tool Not Showing and Not Working
Illustrator gets stuck on hand tool
My computer specs:
Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
Intel Core i3-4130 3.4Ghz
4GB RAM

wecon,
You could try to reinstall using the full three step way:
Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool, and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

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I am wrinting unit tests for my swing application. For one test I want to simulate a drag event over a panel. I have tried JFCUnit, but does not seem to work for this, so I am trying to write my own.
I create 3 mouse events and post them on the system event queue. A mouse press event, a mouse drag event and a mouse release event. MouseEvent's do let you specify a drag start and a drag end point in their constructor. So I have tried using both, but neither works.
Am I doing anything wrong? The component I'm operating on gets the mouse pressed and mouse released events, but thats all.
any help much appreciated,
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We're getting some curious behaviour with mouse drag events when running our java client app on an X Terminal (a SunRay 1 in this case).
It seems that events are not delivered to the client while the drag is in progress but only after the user stops moving the mouse for about a second. Needless to say, this is very annoying and kinda kills the interactivity in our app.
This delay seems to get worse the faster you move the mouse.
It's not just our app, either. All java apps we've tried do the same thing.
The delay gets smaller if you go all the way back to JVM 1.2, but all newer versions have the problem.
Sooooooo, what I'd like to know is:
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- is there any configuration option in Java or the X Server I can tweak to improve performance?
TIA,
Andrew

I don't know the answer, but perhaps these links will help:
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4669873.html
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4485987.html
I hope this sheds at least a bit of light on your problem,
regards,
Alex

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Thanks & Regards

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