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Image Map

Posted by Matt Gerrans on December 14, 2001 at 10:24 PM

> I am doing a project on java and i have to draw a map. What i would like to know is how do i create a button so the if the button is pressed a certain action is taken for example if i had a bus stop i would have a button so that when the user presses that button information comes up about were that bus goes

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by having a button -- you don't want to stick a button on top of a your map, do you?

It would probably be more attractive and flexible to add a mouse listener to your JPanel (I assume that's where you're drawing the image) with addMouseListener(). Then you can check any click event against your array of objects which reside on the map. Each object can check whether the click was on itself and take whatever action is needed.