are scala's mouse events working? how?

Question

I'm trying to create link-like label in scala. But no mouse events works for me. How are they supposed to work?

class Hyperlink extends Label{
text = "hyperlink"
reactions += {
    case MouseClicked(_,_,_,_,_) =>
        println("mouse clicked")}}

I put this in some panel and click over the label like a pro minesweeper player... and nothing shows up in console. Why?

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/938437/scala-swing-event-framework-where-do-i-add-my-reactors — Rex Kerr, Mar 25 '10 at 02:27

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 24 '11 at 18:03

5

You need to listenTo the relevant thing, something like:

listenTo(this.mouse.clicks)

Edit: since 2.8.0 Mouse is deprecated, use mouse instead

edited Nov 24 '11 at 18:03

Paweł Prażak

answered Mar 25 '10 at 08:48

oxbow_lakes

pretty hard to find this in the Api. There should be some reference from classes that extend Component, I think – ryskajakub Mar 25 '10 at 18:34

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 29 '10 at 15:09

2

Maybe this should have been a comment to the previous answer, but due to my rep, i cant add comments.

this.Mouse is deprecated and this.mouse should be used instead. Also, this might be a good resource: http://www.scala-lang.org/sid/8

answered Aug 29 '10 at 15:09

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