Java MVC - problems adding a MouseListener

Question

I am a Java student and just ended the basic functionality of a little command line card game. The game is a simplified version of Magic-type trading card game. There is no AI, you play against yourself or another human player.

At this point, i am trying to add some GUI to it using MVC, but i'm finding problems adding a MouseListener to a button.

This is a brief explanation of what's going on:

• I have a Model class, that extends Observable by inheritance of a superclass
• A View class, that implements Observer.
• And a Controller class that extends MouseAdapter

Then i put everything together:

....

View view = new View();
Model model = new Model();

model.addObserver( view );

Controller controller = new Controller();
// associate Controller's Model and View objects
controller.addModel(model);
controller.addView(view);

view.addController(controller); // i try to add the MouseListener

....

The addController() method of View is:

public void addController(Controller controller){
            this.myButton.addMouseListener( controller )
}

I already checked that addController() method is being called (println something inside it), but the Listener is not being set for some reason: mouseReleased() is never called when i click the button.

Any thoughts or any step that i may have overlooked? Appreciate.

Edit (Controller code):

public class Controller extends MouseAdapter {

    Model model;
    View view;

    public void addModel(Model m){
            this.model = m;
    }

    public void addView(View ui){
            this.view = ui;
    }

    // All @Overrides

    @Override
    public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent me) {
        System.out.println("oh, it arrived");
    }
}

Answer 1

You must be doing something wrong, but I can not say what without the code. Here is some simple code that works (maybe it can help you understand what you are doing wrong):

    import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;

public class Test1 extends JFrame {

    public Test1() {
        initUI();
    }

    private void initUI() {
        JPanel container = new JPanel();
        container.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        container.setBackground(Color.black);

        JButton b = new JButton("test");
        b.addMouseListener(new Controller());
        container.add(b);

        add(container);
        pack();

    }

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                Test1 c = new Test1();
                c.setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }

    class Controller extends MouseAdapter {
        @Override
        public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent me) {
            System.out.println("oh, it arrived");
        }
    }

}