Event Handling Consume event doubt

[nek thomas]

I have doubt about MouseEvent consume(). And, what it is used for?
As, I tried an example and I could not figure out what it was doing

Please give your suggestions on this

Thanks


Nick

[Michael Dunn]

    
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
class Testing
{
  public void buildGUI()
  {
    final JCheckBox cbx = new JCheckBox("Consume");
    JPanel p = new JPanel();
    p.setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Click Me"));
    JFrame f = new JFrame();
    f.getContentPane().add(cbx,BorderLayout.NORTH);
    f.getContentPane().add(p);
    f.setSize(400,300);
    f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
    f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    f.setVisible(true);
 
    p.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter(){
      public void mousePressed(MouseEvent me){
        System.out.println("Pressed");
      }
    });
 
    Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().addAWTEventListener(new AWTEventListener(){
      public void eventDispatched(AWTEvent e)
      {
        if(e.getSource() != cbx)
        {
          if(cbx.isSelected() && e.getID() == MouseEvent.MOUSE_PRESSED) ((MouseEvent)e).consume();
        }
      }
    }, AWTEvent.MOUSE_EVENT_MASK);
  }
  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable(){
      public void run(){
        new Testing().buildGUI();
      }
    });
  }
}

[nek thomas]

Thanks for your explanation.


Nick

[Darryl Burke]

Just another cross poster.
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5340946

[nek thomas]

Can you also give me an example of how to implement this using Java 1.4


Thanks


Nick

[Campbell Ritchie]

"Nek Th" please read the important administrative private message I have just sent you.

CR

[Rob Spoor]

Originally posted by nek th:
Can you also give me an example of how to implement this using Java 1.4

Thanks

Nick

The above code from Michael compiles and runs just perfectly using Java 1.4