It's been awhile since I used Swing, and that wasn't very much. I have a fairly basic question. I want a mouseover sound to play in my UI when a user mouses over my buttons. Is there an easier way to acheive this without adding a MouseListener to the button? It's not that big of a deal, but it seems a bit of waste just to add a sound to the mouseEntered event.
Just want to make sure I'm not missing something obvious.
Many thanks,
Scott
Adding a mouse listener to catch ENTER and LEAVE events is fine. You can even use a single listener for all buttons…
Ok. Thing is I have different sounds for different buttons, so one listener won't cut it. I guess the thing that concerned me was that when I add a mouse listener, it makes me implement mouseClicked, mouseReleased, mousePressed, mouseEntered, mouseExited when all I really need is entered and clicked. Just seemed like a bit of extra overhead when you multiply it by many buttons (my game is UI intensive).
Then just use the Adapter instead of the Interface 
Ok. Cool.
One other dumb question. I've been setting up my GUI just fine with buttons and background images, however, when I try to add a slider, it doesn't show up. But if I add a pane or panel and then the slider it works. The problem is, I don't want any window appearing behind the slider. In other words I want it just to show over the scene. So my question is, is there a way to just add the slider directly to the JDesktop and have it work or is there a way to make the frame completely invisble? I've looked in serveral places but can't seem to figure this out. I'm sure it's either painfully simple or a bug. XD
hmm, that should work - did you try to repaint() it?
Yes sir I have. I'm doing it in the constructor of a class that I created that extends gamestatenode and gets activated when a user clicks a button. Although I shouldn't think that matters because the other elements, buttons, jlabels work. :?
Ok. I even tried repainting the JDesktop after the gamestatenode was activated. Still no go.
do you add the slider to a panel first ???
what layout managers are you using
Well if I add it to an additional panel or frame, then it shows up, but so does the panel and I don't want that. So I'm just trying to add directly to the JDesktop.
I'm just using the default layout manager.
does panel.setOpaque(false) help
Nope. Tried that already.
To follow up. I guess what you were suggesting was to make the panel invisible. Yeah. I tried several techniques and none seemed to make it go away without also losing the slider.
Ok. It was something really dumb, but something that I wouldn't expect. I wasn't setting the size of the slider (although at one point I thought I had). But setting the size, made it show up. Odd.