Mouse moved event within JPanel

Question

I'm having some issues with getting my mouse events to work. I have a JPanel inside of a JLayeredPane which is in a JScrollPane. Admittedly, I am fairly new to working with Swing, but essentially, I want the JPanel to react to the mouse moving, but have been unable to get it to work.

public class CellHighlighter extends JPanel implements MouseMotionListener{

    public CellHighlighter(){

    }

    public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent evt){
        System.out.println(evt.getPoint().x + ", " + evt.getPoint().y);
    }

    public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent evt){System.out.println("message");}

}

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Are you registering your JPanel Object with the MouseListener? Something like:

    public CellHighlighter(){
       this.addMouseMotionListener(this);
    }

Or maybe you need to add the MouseListener to The ScrollPane or LayeredPane?