This is really getting on my NERVES!! _NOT A GRIPER_ legitamate question...

Question

I am writing a sort of desktop program (sort of like the desktop to Windows and or any X Window System desktop like GNome or KDE, you get the picture) I've written a FileIcon class that extends JPanel, and I have added a listener for Mouse Drag, so that in theory when you drag the icon it follows the mouse. It looks something like this:
//this is in the constructor:
this.addMouseMotionListener(new java.awt.event.MouseMotionAdapter() {
public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) {
this_mouseDragged(e);
void this_mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) {
this.setLocation(e.getPoint());
Okay now here is the IDIOTIC ANNOYING AGGREVATING NERVE RACKING (sorry I had to vent) PROBLEM:
The Icon does two things that it should not be doing:
First it I guess the average of the point where it started and the point where my mouse is. The farther I move from the starting point from the mouse, the farther behind it goes.
Secondly, and more annoying, is it blinks between two different locations, so sometimes when I let go of the mouse at the bottom of the screen, the icon will have moved towards the top of the screen. It lands on whatever of the two locations, both following the mouse from different angles (see problem number 1), happens to be its position at the moment. Try it out:
make a JPanel with a null layout and add the IconClass made below,
make some IconClass extending JPanel, with the above code for the drag event, and try dragging it around a little bit.
All and any help is appreciated and if I have any duke dollars left I will reward a complete fix answer with as many as I can.

Answer 1

I found a suitable fix, incase anyone else is trying to do this:
Point point1 = this.getLocation();
Point point2 = this.getLocation();
MouseEvent dragEvent;
public Point addPoint(Point p1, Point p2)
point1 = this.getLocation();
point2 = dragEvent.getPoint();
int x = (int) (p1.getX() + p2.getX() - 40);
int y = (int) (p1.getY() + p2.getY() - 40);
return new Point(x,y);
public void run()
this.setLocation(addPoint(point1,point2));
void this_mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) {
highlight(MOUSE_DRAG,e);
if (type != 0)
dragEvent = e;
Thread t = new Thread(this);
t.start();
It works pretty well