Best way to do Buttons?

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

Hey all, I am working on a simple game just for fun and practice. I already have a way to make “buttons” in-game but I was wondering if there was a better way of doing it. Currently to do buttons I draw text to the game, make a rectangle that is the size of the text, then I make a class that extends MouseAdapter and add it to my JPanel using addMouseListener(). In the class that extends MouseAdapter I have a mousePressed() method that checks if the click is inside the button’s rectangle and acts accordingly. Is there a better/easier/simpler way to do this? Thanks in advance for any help :slight_smile:

#2

You could create like a ButtonGroup class that implements MouseListener and add objects of type Button to it. Then when you click or hover you can run a for loop to see which button was clicked/hover and call a method in that Button.

#3

Is this for use in conjunction with active rendering?

#4

You can use this with active rendering if you would like. You can also call repaint() every time the mouse moves for efficiency.

#5

Thanks that helped :P.

#6

Glad to help! :slight_smile: