BetterGlassPane

This project provides a better glass pane implementation, to replace the default glass pane of a JRootPane object. In contrast to the default glass pane (JPanel) of a JRootPane, this BetterGlassPane handles any mouse events, without interrupting the controls underneath the glass pane (in the content pane of the root pane). Also cursors are handled as if the glass pane was invisible (if no cursor gets explicit set to the glass pane).

Usage

Feel free to use the class lc.kra.swing.BetterGlassPane by copying the BetterGlassPane.java file to your project. Instantiate a BetterGlassPane by using the BetterGlassPane() constructor. In addition you have to set the root pane to the glass pane and the glass pane to the root pane:

JRootPane anyRootPane = ...;
BetterGlassPane betterGlassPane = new BetterGlassPane();
betterGlassPane.setRootPane(anyRootPane);
anyRootPane.setGlassPane(betterGlassPane);

Alternatively you can call the specific BetterGlassPane(JRootPane) constructor, so you don't have to set the root pane / glass pane (the glass pane will be set to visible by default):

JRootPane anyRootPane = ...;
BetterGlassPane betterGlassPane = new BetterGlassPane(anyRootPane);

Afterwards add any number of mouse listeners (addMouseListener), mouse motion listeners (addMouseMotionListener) or mouse wheel listeners (addMouseWheelListener) to the glass pane.

Maven Dependency

You can include better-glass-pane from this GitHub repository by adding this dependency to your pom.xml:

<dependency>
  <groupId>lc.kra.swing</groupId>
  <artifactId>better-glass-pane</artifactId>
  <version>0.1.4</version>
</dependency>

Additionally you will have to add the following repository to your pom.xml:

<repositories>
  <repository>
    <id>better-glass-pane-mvn-repo</id>
    <url>https://raw.github.com/kristian/better-glass-pane/mvn-repo/</url>
    <snapshots>
      <enabled>true</enabled>
      <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
    </snapshots>
  </repository>
</repositories>

Build

To build better-glass-pane on your machine, checkout the repository, cd into it, and call:

mvn clean install

License

The code is available under the terms of the MIT License.