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Deepam Gupta
Deepam Gupta

Reputation: 2702

Hand Cursor when hover on a button in Java AWT

I've created a button in AWT with the name "Reset". I want the cursor to be hand cursor when the mouse is hovered on this button.

I tried the mouseEntered method of the MouseAdapter class but no effect.

void createResetButton() {
    Button resetButton = new Button("Reset");
    resetButton.setBounds(300, 335, 100, 40);
    add(resetButton);
    resetButton.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
        @Override
        public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
            usernameTextField.setText(null);
            passwordTextField.setText(null);
            invalidMessage.setVisible(false);   
        }

        @Override
        public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e) {
            Cursor.getPredefinedCursor(HAND_CURSOR);
        }
    });
}

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1278

Answers (2)

Thomas Fritsch
Thomas Fritsch

Reputation: 10137

Your statement Cursor.getPredefinedCursor(HAND_CURSOR); in your mouseEntered method had no effect, because you only got the cursor, but then did nothing with it.

The solution is simpler than you might have expected. You don't need your mouseEntered method. Just use the setCursor(Cursor) method of class Componenton your resetButton.

void createResetButton() {
    Button resetButton = new Button("Reset");
    resetButton.setBounds(300, 335, 100, 40);
    add(resetButton);
    resetButton.setCursor(Cursor.getPredefinedCursor(Cursor.HAND_CURSOR));
    resetButton.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
        @Override
        public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
            usernameTextField.setText(null);
            passwordTextField.setText(null);
            invalidMessage.setVisible(false);   
        }
    });
}

Then AWT will do the rest for you: showing the hand cursor when the mouse enters the resetButton, and showing the normal cursor when leaving it.

Upvotes: 1

Deepam Gupta
Deepam Gupta

Reputation: 2702

I got this done this way after few hits and trials:

void createResetButton() {
    Button resetButton = new Button("Reset");
    resetButton.setBounds(300, 335, 100, 40);
    add(resetButton);
    resetButton.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
        @Override
        public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
            usernameTextField.setText(null);
            passwordTextField.setText(null);
            invalidMessage.setVisible(false);   
        }
        @Override
        public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e) {
            resetButton.setCursor(new Cursor(Cursor.HAND_CURSOR));
        }
    });
}

Upvotes: 0

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