More than a few hundred components is awkward. One easy way to get big pixels is to use drawImage() and scale the mouse coordinates as shown here and here. Here's a simple example.
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseMotionListener;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import javax.swing.Icon;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
/** @see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2900801 */
public class Grid extends JPanel implements MouseMotionListener {
private final BufferedImage img;
private int imgW, imgH, paneW, paneH;
public Grid(String name) {
super(true);
Icon icon = UIManager.getIcon(name);
imgW = icon.getIconWidth();
imgH = icon.getIconHeight();
this.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(imgW * 10, imgH * 10));
img = new BufferedImage(imgW, imgH, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) img.getGraphics();
icon.paintIcon(null, g2d, 0, 0);
g2d.dispose();
this.addMouseMotionListener(this);
}
@Override
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
paneW = this.getWidth();
paneH = this.getHeight();
g.drawImage(img, 0, 0, paneW, paneH, null);
}
@Override
public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {
Point p = e.getPoint();
int x = p.x * imgW / paneW;
int y = p.y * imgH / paneH;
int c = img.getRGB(x, y);
this.setToolTipText(x + "," + y + ": "
+ String.format("%08X", c));
}
@Override
public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) {
}
private static void create() {
JFrame f = new JFrame();
f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
f.add(new Grid("Tree.closedIcon"));
f.pack();
f.setVisible(true);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
create();
}
});
}
}
