Section 12.14 Mouse Event Handling
• The MouseListener (p. 513) and MouseMotionListener (p. 513) event-listener interfaces are used to handle mouse events (p. 513). Mouse events can be trapped for any GUI component that extends Component.
• Interface MouseInputListener (p. 513) of package javax.swing.event extends interfaces MouseListener and MouseMotionListener to create a single interface containing all their methods.
• Each mouse event-handling method receives a MouseEvent object (p. 494) that contains information about the event, including the x- and y-coordinates where the event occurred. Coordinates are measured from the upper-left corner of the GUI component on which the event occurred.
• The methods and constants of class InputEvent ...
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