How to find the mouse position relative to a panel constantly?

Question

I'm using MouseListeners and I want it to tell me the mouse position without th mouse being clicked or held down. So I know where it is hovering over. How do I do this?

I have code such as this, to find the position when it is pressed but i'm unsure how to find the position all the time.

  public void mousePressed(MouseEvent me) {
    print("Mouse Pressed");
      xPosClicked = me.getX() ;
      yPosClicked = me.getY() ;
      print("(" + xPos + "," + yPos + ")");
  }

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 13 '13 at 20:51

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Use a MouseMotionListener to listen for movement: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/events/mousemotionlistener.html

answered Aug 13 '13 at 20:51

Xabster

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 13 '13 at 20:57

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Use the mouse motion listener

jPanel.addMouseMotionListener(new java.awt.event.MouseMotionAdapter() {
        public void mouseMoved(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) {

        }
    });

answered Aug 13 '13 at 20:57

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How to find the mouse position relative to a panel constantly?

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