How would I get a box to appear when I hover over a JLabel? The box is to explain what the label is. This is just a minor detail for the user-interface functionality of a game. So when a user hovers over a label, a box appears explaining it.
9Nimo4 0 Newbie Poster
NormR1 563 Posting Sage Team Colleague
If you wrote your own code you would need to listen to mouse movement and detect a hover. When detected, get the component under the mouse and display a window.
Isn't there a tooltip class to do this?
JamesCherrill 4,733 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
Yes there is. javax.swing.JToolTip
http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/tooltip.html
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