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Java™ After Hours: 10 Projects You'll Never Do at Work
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Java™ After Hours: 10 Projects You'll Never Do at Work

by Steven Holzner
June 2005
Beginner to intermediate
336 pages
6h 29m
English
Sams
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How the User Blocks Pucks

The computer moves its own blocker around, but the user is responsible for moving his blocker using the mouse. To handle the mouse, you'll need to catch mouse press, mouse drag, and mouse release events, which are handled by implementing the methods of the MouseListener and MouseMotionListener interfaces, as you've already seen.

When the user presses the mouse, Slapshot! checks to see if the mouse is over his blocker, and if so, sets a Boolean flag named dragging to true, which means that from then on the user can drag his blocker simply by moving the mouse.

When the user presses the mouse, the mousePressed method is passed a MouseEvent object, and you can use the getX and getY methods of that object to determine where ...

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