Sending mouse pointer co-ordinates to multiple clients

Question

Hi. I used the MouseMotionListener to get mouse pointer co-ordinates and send those values to one single client. Now i want to know how i could send those co-ordinate values to multiple clients at the same time? If i use multi-threading then what all the steps should i do in the run() method???

Answer 1

Hi. I tried another way. Its like this.
I declared two global variables x and y for holding two mouse co-ordinates in class a.
class a {
public static int x = 0;
public static int y = 0;
Now in the main method of one class, I accepted client connections and started the thread like this :
socket = server.accept();
thread= new HandlerThread(socket);
thread.start();
Now in the class HandlerThread this is what i did :
class HandlerThread extends Thread {
private Socket s1;
ObjectOutputStream oos;
public HandlerThread(Socket s) {
this.s1=s;
public void run() {
try
oos = new ObjectOutputStream(s1.getOutputStream());
oos.writeObject(a.x);
oos.writeObject(a.y);
catch(IOException e)
System.out.println("Exception"+e);
At the sender side when i moved my mouse pointer on screen, i was able to get the changing mouse co-ordinates value. But at the receiver side, only the initial value of x=0 & y=0 was obtained. I started two client connections and for both i received only the initial value. Can someone tell me what could be the reason for this?? Plz reply.