Mouse events listener

I'm having trouble listening for mouse events in Bridge CS6.
This example script works well in Photoshop and Toolkit, but not in Bridge:
var w =new Window ("dialog");
var b = w.add ("button", undefined, "Qwerty");
b.addEventListener("click", function (k){whatsup (k)});
function whatsup (p)
if(p.button == 2){ $.writeln ("Right-button clicked.") }
if(p.shiftKey){ $.writeln ("Shift key pressed.") }
$.writeln ("X: "+ p.clientX);
$.writeln ("Y: "+ p.clientY);
w.show ();
Other event types like resize or focus work well.
The event types that seem to be broken are: mousedown, mouseup, mouseover, mouseout, click
Is there a work-around to this problem?

Only the video edition team is using CC.
We tried 2 times, on May and July to install 1 PC with CC and the apps (Photoshop and Bridge included) crashed several times.
CS6 still is more stable.
For my surprise, 90% of the code we have developed still works on photoshop/Bridge and now we are installing our 'private' company cloud network so my team will be editing also the photos from US on real time.
Recently I have had success in discovering simple tricks regarding Bridge that anyone needs or uses, but crucial to hard workflows like the one we have.
In that sense, may be next season we will be able to upgrade to cloud CC
We'll see…

Similar Messages

Cut or Inverse Masking via Blend.Layer + Blend.Erase = no mouse event listener for objects behind "glass wall"

I've successfully erased unwanted graphics using Blend and I can drag a desired object that is behind the erased area, but the dragged object does not have mouse events unless I drag if from behind the erased area. Does anyone know a good work around or how I can force the event to be dispatched when the object behind the "glass wall" is clicked? I can't find documentation anywhere that addresses this situation. If an object behind can not be selected how is it really erased? Thanks in advance!

Yes, and I want to keep it behind. It's visible and can be dragged, but
since behind the transparent area that has been erased using Blend.Erase it
no longer receives click events. Thanks for your response.
Michelle

Passing a string as the name of a Mouse Event Listener function?

Hello,
I am trying to essentially pass a string as a function name into an event listener, but I am not sure how to approach this. Is there a way to convert a string into a function? I am not sure how to word my question, so I apologize.
Here is some code I have for me to show you what I am doing.
package{
     //some import statements
     public class changes extends MovieClip{
          var functionName:String
          var aBox:Sprite;
          public function changes(){
                   functionName = "testThis";
                   createButtonBox(16, 16, 32, 32, functionName);
          public function createButtonBox(anX:Number, aY:Number, aWidth:Number, aHeight:Number, aFunction:String){
               aBox = new Sprite();
               //Some drawing box code
               aBox.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,[aFunction]()?)
               addChild(aBox)
          public function aFunction(event:MouseEvent){
               trace("test");
Am I on the right track or is this not possible?
Anyhow, thank you in advance.

I guess I misworded my question. Essentially what I am trying to do is create buttons that have functions called to from an event listener, referenced by a string like this:
public class Document{
     var functionName:String;
     public function Document(){
             createAButton("Test Button A", 32, 32, "testThis");
             createAButton("Test Button B", 64, 64, "testThis2");
     public function createAButton(textOnButton:String, anX:Number, aY:Number, functionToCallTo:String){
               var aButton:Sprite = new Sprite();
               //draw the button
               //set a textfieldup for the button to have
              aButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, functionToCallTo)
     public function testThis(event:MouseEvent){
               trace("testA");
     public function testThis2(event:MouseEvent){
                trace("testB");
Unfortunately aButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, functionToCallTo) gives me a coercian error, which is a given.
aButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, [functionToCallTo]()) gives me TypeError: Error #1006: value is not a function.
I mean I could create a bunch of if statements, but for the number of functions I plan to call to, like about 25 or so, that is pretty tedious.

Mouse over event listener? in Flash CS4 (AS3)

Hi,
I was wondering if there is such a thing as a mouse over listener.
So that it would execute code when the mouse rolls over(and maybe also execute code when the mouse moves away again)
Thank you for any help.

yes, there are mouseover and rollover events, as well as, their "out" events:
MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER
MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER

How to catch the mouse event from the JTable cell of the DefaultCellEditor

Hi, my problem is:
I have a JTable with the cells of DefaultCellEditor(JComboBox) and added the mouse listener to JTable. I can catch the mouse event from any editor cell when this cell didn't be focused. However, when I click the editor to select one JComboBox element, all the mouse events were intercepted by the editor.
So, how can I catch the mouse event in this case? In other word, even if I do the operation over the editor, I also need to catch the cursor position.
Any idea will be highly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!

Hi, bbritta,
Thanks very much for your help. Really, your code could run well, but my case is to catch the JComboBox event. So, when I change the JTextField as JComboBox, it still fail to catch the event. The following is my code. Could you give me any other suggestion?
Also, any one has a good idea for my problem? I look forward to the right solution to this problem.
Thanks.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class Test3
extends JFrame {
// JTextField jtf = new JTextField();
Object[] as = {"aa","bb","cc","dd"};
JComboBox box = new JComboBox(as);
public Test3() {
setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
Container content = getContentPane();
String[] head = {
"One", "Two", "Three"};
String[][] data = {
"R1-C1", "R1-C2", "R1-C3"}
"R2-C1", "R2-C2", "R2-C3"}
JTable jt = new JTable(data, head);
box.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
// jtf.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e)
System.out.println("-------------------JComboBox mouseclick....");
jt.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e)
System.out.println("-------------------JTable mouseclick....");
// jt.setDefaultEditor(Object.class, new DefaultCellEditor(jtf));
jt.setDefaultEditor(Object.class, new DefaultCellEditor(box));
content.add(new JScrollPane(jt), BorderLayout.CENTER);
setSize(300, 300);
public static void main(String[] args) {
new Test3().setVisible(true);
}

Mouse Event Listeners with Full Screen JMF

I am trying to call the mouseClicked function from JMFs addMouseListner API in order to stop a media file when a user clicks the mouse button (or a key) like in a screensaver
I am able to access the function just before the player is started but once the media file begins to play I am not?
Here is the code I am using for the player and listener:
public static void main(String[] argv) {
JMF myFrame = new JMF("Java Media Framework Project");
myFrame.setUndecorated(true);
myFrame.show();
Dimension screenDim =Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
myFrame.setSize(screenDim.width, screenDim.height);
myFrame.setResizable(false);
myFrame.addMouseListener(
new MouseAdapter(){
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
System.out.println("Mouse was clicked");
System.exit(0);
myFrame.play();
Are there any other methods to get around this? Is it possible to embed a JMF application in a window that I can then monitor mouse events from??

I passed the player object to a Listener class and I can get it to work ok with keyboard controls so Im sure the thread is not being blocked...but my problem still exists in being able to monitor mouse events within the JMF display while the media is being played at full screen. (i.e. in order to stop the media)
Maybe I can use the ControllerListener within the JMF player to monitor mouse events? Any ideas on how I do this?
Is it possible to layer the display with a transparent window from which I can monitor mouse events from?
You mentioned asynchronical playback...I am looking into this idea, are there any examples of this on the web I can look at?
Thanks for your speedy reply also!!
Regards,
Joe
public static void main(String[] argv) {
JMF myFrame = new JMF("Java Media Framework Project");
myFrame.setUndecorated(true);
myFrame.show();
Dimension screenDim =Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
myFrame.setSize(screenDim.width, screenDim.height);
myFrame.setResizable(false);
myFrame.new Listener(myFrame);
myFrame.play();
public class Listener implements KeyListener,
MouseListener,
MouseMotionListener,
WindowListener {
private JMF owner;
Listener(JMF w) {
owner = w;
owner.addMouseListener(this);
owner.addKeyListener(this);
owner.addMouseMotionListener(this);
//owner.addWindowListener(this);
private void stop() { owner.stop(); }
//---------- KeyListener Implementation ------------------
public void keyPressed (KeyEvent evt) { stop(); System.out.println("key pressed");}
public void keyReleased(KeyEvent evt) { stop(); }
public void keyTyped (KeyEvent evt) { stop(); }
//---------- MouseListener Implementation ----------------
public void mouseClicked (MouseEvent e) { stop(); System.out.println("Mouse clicked");}
public void mousePressed (MouseEvent e) { stop(); }
public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) { stop(); }
public void mouseEntered (MouseEvent e) { }
public void mouseExited (MouseEvent e) { }
//---------- MouseMotionListener Implementation ----------
public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) { }
public void mouseMoved (MouseEvent e) {
if (oldMouse == null)
oldMouse = new Point(e.getX(), e.getY());
else if (e.getX() != oldMouse.x
|| e.getY() != oldMouse.y)
stop();
Point oldMouse;
//---------- WindowListener Implementation ---------------
public void windowOpened (WindowEvent e) { stop(); }
public void windowClosing (WindowEvent e) { stop(); }
public void windowClosed (WindowEvent e) { stop(); }
public void windowIconified (WindowEvent e) { stop(); }
public void windowDeiconified(WindowEvent e) { stop(); }
public void windowActivated (WindowEvent e) { stop(); }
public void windowDeactivated(WindowEvent e) { stop(); }
}

Multiple JPanels on top of each all receiving mouse events

I have multiple JPanels that are painted on top of each other. Each one has mouse listeners that listen for mouse enters, exits, etc. However, it appears that Swing is only propagating the mouse events for the most visible panel (the one that is on top of all of the others). Is there a way to configure Swing in such a way that all JPanels on the screen will get the mouse events, even if they aren't entirely visible on the screen?
Thanks,
-- Ryan

Hi,
You can implement mouse listener for panel and you can identify buttons in the panel with the mouse event of panel using MouseEvent.getComponentAt(MouseEvent.getPoint()) instanceof JButton or not.
I hope this will help,
Kishore.

Mouse event not working on JTable in JAVA 1.4.2

mouse event is not recognised on empty table when using with java 1.4.2. Please specify if there is any chnge done for mouse event capture for table from java 1.3.1 to java 1.4.2.
since mouse events are working fine for JTableHeader.
if anybody have an idea please let me know.

Hi
JTable is there on JPanel . same code is working in JAVA 1.3.1
actually its a bug in java 1.4.2 ( ref. bug_id=4940522 )
here is the code reference..
public class TableEditor extends JPanel
�implements ListSelectionListener, Selector, Editor
private JTable�myTable;
private JPopupMenu myPopup;
private Vector�myActions;
private Vector�myListeners;
�
public TableEditor(String anAssociation, Editor anEditor, int type)
super(new GridLayout(1,1));
�
myListeners = new Vector();
myActions�= new Vector();
myPopup�= new JPopupMenu();
myTable�= new JTable();
��
myTable.getSelectionModel().addListSelectionListener(this);
myTable.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
�public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent me)
�{
� if ((me.getModifiers() & MouseEvent.BUTTON3_MASK) != 0)
� {
��// Update actions in case ListSelectionModel are out of sync.
��for (int i = 0; i < myActions.size(); i++)
��{
Object o = myActions.elementAt(i);
if (o instanceof SelectorAction)
((SelectorAction)o).check();
��}
myPopup.show(myTable, me.getX(), me.getY());
�}
// Added mouse listener to JTableHeader
// This is a temporary solution to open popup menu on blank table,
// as in Java 1.4.2 no mouse event captured on blank table.
// So for now we will capture the event from the table header.
JTableHeader myTableHeader = myTable.getTableHeader();
myTableHeader.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent me)
�{
if ((me.getModifiers() & MouseEvent.BUTTON3_MASK) != 0)
// Update actions in case ListSelectionModel are out of sync.
for (int i = 0; i < myActions.size(); i++)
��{
Object o = myActions.elementAt(i);
if (o instanceof SelectorAction)
((SelectorAction)o).check();
��}
myPopup.show(me.getComponent(), me.getX(), me.getY());
� }
�});
The solution given is temporary ( adding JTableHeader component)..
we want to retain the same functionality .. mouse event should get captured on empty table only..

Need More Mouse Events

[http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10811388|http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10811388]
During search over net I found the above thread and it seems to be describing the same problem which I am also facing. For my application also I need to capture all the mouse events while dragging. I tried the soluiotn mentioned at this thread to solve this problem by overrinding the below method in several ways:
protected AWTEvent coalesceEvents(AWTEvent existingEvent,AWTEvent newEvent);
Even after several attempts, I could not succeed. Can you please suggest how to do that. I was not able to reply to above thread so creating this new thread.
Thanks

I wanted to see if a timer based approach does indeed produce a smoother curve than just simply listening for mouse drag events. What I came up with below was the resulting test code. Lo and behold, using a timer does indeed produce a smoother curve. But it wasn't because it was capturing more mouse positions, it was because it was capturing less. Ain't that a kicker? Another interesting thing is that according to the source code, coalesceEvents is a no-op. The documentation, however, would have you believe that it coalesces mouse events as I thought it did.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.geom.GeneralPath;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.Timer;
import javax.swing.BorderFactory;
public class Test {
    private static class TimerBasedPanel extends JPanel implements MouseListener {
        private GeneralPath line;
        private Timer mousePosQuerier;
        private Component mouseEvtSource;
        private int pointCount;
        public TimerBasedPanel(Component mouseEventSource) {
            mousePosQuerier = new Timer(15, new ActionListener() {
                Point lastMousePoint = new Point(-1, -1);
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                    Point p = MouseInfo.getPointerInfo().getLocation();
                    if (p.x != lastMousePoint.x || p.y != lastMousePoint.y) {
                        lastMousePoint.setLocation(p);
                        SwingUtilities.convertPointFromScreen(p, mouseEvtSource);
                        line.lineTo(p.x, p.y);
                        pointCount++;
                        repaint();
            mouseEvtSource = mouseEventSource;
        public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
            super.paintComponent(g);
            if(line != null) {
                ((Graphics2D) g).draw(line);
        public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
            line = new GeneralPath();
            line.moveTo(e.getX(), e.getY());
            pointCount = 1;
            mousePosQuerier.start();
        public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {
            mousePosQuerier.stop();
            repaint();
            System.out.println("Timer Based, Points Captured: " + pointCount);
        public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e){}
        public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e){}
        public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e){}
    private static class DragEventsPanel extends JPanel
            implements MouseListener, MouseMotionListener{
        private GeneralPath line;
        private int pointCount;
        public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
            super.paintComponent(g);
            if(line != null) {
                ((Graphics2D) g).draw(line);
        public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
            line = new GeneralPath();
            line.moveTo(e.getX(), e.getY());
            pointCount = 1;
        public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) {
            pointCount++;
            line.lineTo(e.getX(),e.getY());
            repaint();
        public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e){
            System.out.println("DragEvent Based, Points Captured: " + pointCount);
        public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e){}
        public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e){}
        public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e){}
        public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {}
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        JFrame frame = new JFrame();
        JPanel drawPanel = new JPanel() {
            @Override
            protected AWTEvent coalesceEvents(AWTEvent existingEvent,
                                              AWTEvent newEvent) {
                if(newEvent.getID() == MouseEvent.MOUSE_DRAGGED) {
                    return null;
                }else {
                    return super.coalesceEvents(existingEvent, newEvent);
        TimerBasedPanel timerPanel = new TimerBasedPanel(drawPanel);
        DragEventsPanel dragPanel = new DragEventsPanel();
        drawPanel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Draw here"));
        timerPanel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Uses a timer"));
        dragPanel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Listens for drag events."));
        drawPanel.addMouseListener(timerPanel);
        drawPanel.addMouseListener(dragPanel);
        drawPanel.addMouseMotionListener(dragPanel);
        frame.setLayout(new java.awt.GridLayout(0,3));
        frame.add(drawPanel);
        frame.add(timerPanel);
        frame.add(dragPanel);
        frame.setSize(600,200);
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.setVisible(true);
}Edited by: Maxideon on Sep 16, 2009 9:56 PM
Minor error, but now fixed.

How to make the row header of the JTable respond to mouse events?

Is there an easy way to enable the row header of a JTable so it listens to mouse events? I have put a button in the first cell of the row header but I can't click in it.
I'm asking for an easy way because I've seen some fairly complicated examples on the web that seem close to what I want but I was hoping something simple like getRowHeader().setEnabled(true) would do the trick for my case...

What's your row header, another JTable or something else? Check out camickr's [url http://tips4java.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/table-button-column/]Table Button Column.
db
edit Or to get better help sooner, post a [url http://mindprod.com/jgloss/sscce.html]SSCCE (Short, Self Contained, Compilable and Executable) example that demonstrates the problem.
Edited by: Darryl Burke

Swing Mouse Event Propagation

Hello,
I'm developing my first Swing application.
One of the components is a thumbnail image panel (ext. JPanel) containing several other components (mostly ext. JLabel). I have the image panel receiving mouse events so as to allow the user to see when the image panel is 'in focus' (rollover effect basically) and to allow the image panel to be selected by clicking.
I added a tooltip to one of the contained labels, and it now 'consumes' my mouse enter/exit event so that now it is as if the label is not part of it's container. This is not what I want.
Is there not some simple way to allow mouse events to be listened for by a child component but yet to 'fall through' to a listener in the parent component?
Any insight into this little problem would be most appreciated.
Thanks.

You can listen to all MouseEvents generated:
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().addAWTEventListener( new AWTEventListener()
public void eventDispatched(AWTEvent e)
System.out.println(e);
}, AWTEvent.MOUSE_MOTION_EVENT_MASK + AWTEvent.MOUSE_EVENT_MASK);You would then need to determine if the source component is a descendent of your main panel.

Mouse event with Javascript API

Hi,
Is it possible to register for mouseclick with the javascript API as with the normal API reference ?
What I have done in javascript is :
Add button and menu item to draw circle annotations.
When you click on a button or a menu item its draws a circle annot on the current page of the doc, but the coordinates are hard coded.
What I want to do, is click a button to say I want to draw my annot(kind of activate an event listener), then click in the doc where I want the annot to be drawn. So I need to capture the mouse position : I found mouseX and mouseY properties for the doc.
Thanks

No, you can only register for mouseclicks from a plugin.
Leonard

Disable JTree and stop it from receiving mouse events

Hi,
I have a JTree which has a mouse listener associated with (which is used for right-click operations)..,..anyway I am trying to disable the tree, so I call setEnabled(false)...which, as documented, disables the tree but it will still receive mouse events. I also tried, setEditable(false)..... the only way I can think of is to remove the mouse listener, and then when I want to re-enable the tree, I have to add it back.
is there some other way?
thanks

Hi,
I have a JTree which has a mouse listener
ner associated with (which is used for right-click
operations)..,..anyway I am trying to disable the
tree, so I call setEnabled(false)...which, as
documented, disables the tree but it will still
receive mouse events. I also tried,
setEditable(false)..... the only way I can think of
is to remove the mouse listener, and then when I want
to re-enable the tree, I have to add it back.
is there some other way?Why do you want another way? This seems like a perfectly viable way to accomplish what you want.

How to limited mouse event in JPanel?

I have a Jpanel with implements mouseListenert(mouseExited), how to limited the mouse event?
this how to work:
1. when my mouse exit ( move out) the jpanel, jpanel will disapprear and it's work
2. in jpanel i add Jtextfield ( jpanel.add(Jtextfield) ). This is the problem, when my mouse over the jtextfield ( where jtextfield is in the jpanel ) my jpanel disapprear. It mean that when my mouse over jtextfield, my mouse exit from jpanel too.
So how to limited mouse listener or what must i do?

i don't know how to do that can you modify this sample code, that the child component do nothing when my mouse over it
JTextField tf = new JTextField();
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
panel.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e) {
panel.setInvisible(false);
panel.add(tf);thx..

Allowing Mouse Events to "Fall Through" When Window Activated

I'm implementing a "tool pallette" in my application (much like tools in an application like Photoshop) and I want the user to be able to immediately click on options on this pallete without having to make the window active. Since Swing doesn't have an explicit "Pallete" window that would give this to me for free, I'm assuming I need to subclass JDialog to make this happen.
Even if window activation still must happen, it's crucial that the user only needs to click once to press the button on an inactive window.
I know I can detect WindowEvents like WINDOW_ACTIVATED by simply adding my own window listener, but I don't know how I'd go about having mouse events "fall through" the window listeners and cause the appropriate action on the underlying component. It's almost as if I need to tell the window itself to listen for nothing.
I thought glass planes may be the answer, but that doesn't seem to be what's preventing the intial click in an inactive window from falling through to the underlying component.
Any thoughts, comments, or experiences regarding this are greatly appreciated!

Such a simple solution to such a perplexing problem. You are absolutely right. It turns out I was experience a bug in my particular L&F. Trying this with the Windows L&F proves that simply changing from JWindow to a non-modal JDialog works. Now I'll have to go about getting the bug fixed in the MacOSX (Aqua) L&F so I have equivalent behavior across all our supported platforms.
Thanks for the quick response.

Mouse events listener

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for