setCursor called by a lightweight component does not have any effect. In the following example, the mouseEntered() method calls the setCursor() to change the cursor to "HAND_CURSOR", but it doesn't work.


/*
 * %W% %G% SMI
 * Copyright (c) 1997 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
 *
 */

import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Cursor;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.FontMetrics;
import java.awt.Frame;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.event.MouseListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;

public class LWRect extends Component implements MouseListener {


public LWRect() {
addMouseListener(this);
}

public void paint(Graphics g) {
Dimension dim = getSize();
g.setColor(getForeground());
g.fillRect(0, 0, dim.width, dim.height);
}

public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
return new Dimension(48, 48);
}

public Dimension preferredSize() {
return getPreferredSize();
}

public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
System.out.println("Mouse Clicked...");
}

public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
System.out.println("Mouse Pressed...");
}

public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {
System.out.println("Mouse Released...");
}

public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e) {
System.out.println("Mouse Exited...");
setCursor(Cursor.getPredefinedCursor(Cursor.DEFAULT_CURSOR));
}

public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e) {
System.out.println("Mouse Entered...");
setCursor(Cursor.getPredefinedCursor(Cursor.HAND_CURSOR));
}

public static void main(String argv[]) {
Frame app = new Frame();
app.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
LWRect rect = new LWRect();
app.add(rect);

app.pack();
app.show();
}
}

sofyan.nugroho@Eng 1997-04-28

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I hit this too. The thing that took me a little by surprise was
that I was catching mouse events in my lightweight container, but I
was doing a setCursor on my parent container which was a normal
panel, and it still wasn't taking effect! I guess that fits with
the evaluation...

Note that I'm still seeing this in the current JDK1.1-AWT workspace.

KGH 5/5/97