Hi,

at the end of my post is an example where I try to consume() the mouse
event, when the click in a button is in the right part of it. When the
click is in the left part, nothing is done and the button shall get pressed.

However, it does not work. Can anybody give me some advice about it?
What I want to do is this: For a button I want to have a region which
defines the valid "active area". When I click inside that area, the
button is pressed, otherwise not. (I am kicking that problem around for
a few days now and it looks like I just miss the relevant information
while searching...)

Thanks a lot in advance.
Code follows:

import javax.swing.JButton;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;

public class ConsumeTest extends javax.swing.JFrame {
  public class JButtonX extends JButton {
    public void turnOnRegionCheck() {
      addMouseListener(new java.awt.event.MouseAdapter() {
        public void mousePressed(java.awt.event.MouseEvent e) {
          if (e.getX()>getWidth()/2) {
            e.consume();
            System.out.println("don't press button");
          } else {
            System.out.println("do press button");
          }
        }
      });
    }
  }
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    ConsumeTest ct = new ConsumeTest();
    ct.setVisible(true);
  }

  public ConsumeTest() {
    super();
    setSize(200, 100);
    JButtonX btn = new JButtonX();
    this.getContentPane().add(btn, BorderLayout.NORTH);
    btn.setText("Left: shall work, right: consume");
    btn.turnOnRegionCheck();
    this.addWindowListener( new WindowAdapter() {
        public void windowClosing( WindowEvent e ) {
          System.exit(0);
        }
    });
  }
}