info.aduna.swing.overlay
Class ListOverlay

java.lang.Object
  java.awt.event.MouseAdapter
      javax.swing.event.MouseInputAdapter
          info.aduna.swing.overlay.ListOverlay

All Implemented Interfaces:

MouseListener, MouseMotionListener, MouseWheelListener, EventListener, MouseInputListener

public class ListOverlay
extends MouseInputAdapter

A ListOverlay displays the contents of a JList row in its entirety when it is partially invisible (e.g. because it's hidden by a JScrollPane) and the mouse pointer is over it.

This code is largely based on code obtained from the following web pages:

• http://www.jroller.com/page/santhosh?entry=partially_visible_jtree_nodes
• http://www.jroller.com/page/santhosh?entry=partially_visible_jtree_nodes_contd

Use this code in the following way:

JList list = ...
new ListOverlay(list);

Constructor Summary

ListOverlay(JList list)

Method Summary

void	mouseExited(MouseEvent e)
void	mouseMoved(MouseEvent e)

Methods inherited from class java.awt.event.MouseAdapter

mouseClicked, mouseDragged, mouseEntered, mousePressed, mouseReleased, mouseWheelMoved

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface java.awt.event.MouseListener

mouseClicked, mouseEntered, mousePressed, mouseReleased

Methods inherited from interface java.awt.event.MouseMotionListener

mouseDragged

Constructor Detail

ListOverlay

public ListOverlay(JList list)

Method Detail

mouseExited

public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e)

Specified by:

mouseExited in interface MouseListener

Overrides:

mouseExited in class MouseAdapter

mouseMoved

public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e)

Specified by:

mouseMoved in interface MouseMotionListener

Overrides:

mouseMoved in class MouseAdapter