Set JButton's mouse events to JTextField

**startas** · September 11th, 2013, 01:47 PM

So, i have a JButton and a JTextField, and i need a way to connect both elements mouse events and make them act like JButton's mouse events. I.e., if i click on text field, button is clicked too, if mouse enters text field, then button acts like mouse entered it too, if mouse releases text field, then button acts like mouse released it too.
Now, what ways there is ? Is there something like button.setMouseState(entered), button.setMouseStateEntered(), or some other way to force mouse state for elements ? That way i could just set text field's mouse events to change button's mouse states.

**copeg** · September 11th, 2013, 03:01 PM

Add a MouseListener to the appropriate Component, and for each type of event you wish to capture, dispatch a new event to the other component. As an example, below would be a partial implementation to dispatch the mouse entered event from the listening component to the other component (button).

@Override
public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e){
   button.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent (button, MouseEvent.MOUSE_ENTERED, System.currentTimeMillis(), e.getModifiers(), 1, 1, e.getClickCount(), false);//1, 1 is just a pseudo position, could be more complex depending upon needs
}

**startas** · September 11th, 2013, 04:08 PM

Thanks, i wrote mouseEntered(), mouseExited(), mousePressed(), mouseReleased(), mouseClicked() methods and it works perfectly.

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