There is no mousedown() method in the whole of Java SE. If you mean
mouseDown(), java.awt.Component has one (you could at least have had the
courtesy to post real code and mention which class you are talking about).

If you talk about Component.mouseDown(), the API documentation will tell
you it has been replaced by Component.processMouseEvent(MouseEvent).

There is no mouse_pressed method or constant in Java. There is an int
constant MOUSE_PRESSED in MouseEvent. You are supposed to check the
event ID against that constant to figure out which type of event you got.

However, you apparently use the old 1.0 event model. That one has been
replaced in Java 1.1 - almost ten years ago. You should consider
rewriting that stuff to use the "new" 1.1 event model.

And you should recognize that Java is a language where case matters.

/Thomas

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Hi Michele,

An internet search for "Deprecated API " shows options from Sun

a starting point might be

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/windows/javadoc.html

and there are various Deprecated API  lists  depending on the platform
that you have.

B

Michele,

The Sun tutorial is a good place to look at examples, also.

The Swing (user interface) part of the tutorial is at:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/index.html

The specific part you want is on writing listeners:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/events/index.html

And within that look at MouseListener (for the press, release and click
events) and MouseMotionListener if you need to drag or track movement of the
mouse rather than discrete presses.

As a beginner porting an old application to Swing, you will need to
understand first how GUI's are programmed in general (the generic idea of
handling events rather than a procedural mindset of: first I do this, then I
do this...)  From there you can pick up the Swing event model where your GUI
generates events (button presses, mouse clicks, etc) and you write event
handlers for those events (what should I do if the user clicks the mouse?).
In Swing they just happen to call those handlers "listeners".

It will be a little bit of a leap, since as a beginner, you will need to
figure out how to write classes, implement interfaces and write the code
that actually handles the functionality.  The Sun tutorial has a lot of good
examples of all this stuff and it is free!

Hope this helps a little...

Bob

On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 13:52:44 +0100, "Michele"
<icimimi$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$@wanadoo.fr> wrote, quoted or indirectly
quoted someone who said :

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/event10.htm to learn how they used to
work. and http://mindprod.com/jgloss/event11.html to learn how they
work now.  

I converted the Unicode app over from 1.0 to 1.1 events a few months
back. It is pretty mechanical once you do one handler.