Overlapping components problem
843804Oct 26 2004 — edited Oct 28 2004Hello,
I have been developing an applet for Quickplaces. Basically it shows what is happening in the Quickplace from different kind of views. A view from a document where people can see who has been viewing it for example. Or a view from a member where one can see what documents the member wrote.
Now I have chosen to implement a sort of circle visualisation for this. In the center is the object the view is about, a document, a member, etc. Outwards are other objects. In the case of a document view, the members that responded to it, in a circle more outward: members that viewed it. Etc. It's sort of a dartboard.
I have written a custom layoutmanager for each view for this. A problem I have encountered is that once I tell a member or document component to let itself be placed by the layout managerr I get a fixed size component. It looks ok until you for example hover over it, wich I have keyed to a zooming in on details method. When you do that your usually overlapping other components. Why, components can be overlapped without zooming in some views. The problem is the mouselistener I have attached fires when I hover over de component size. Not the size of the actual graphical representation. My members for example are represented by a sphere. They are bounded by a rectangle component though. So if I enter my mouse anywhere near the sphere... it already zooms in, resulting in the user zooming in on a member, but actually he wanted to zoom in on a member that was close to this one, but for the code was "underneath" the component of the other member.
It's a bit hard to explain without posting a screenshot.
How do I fix this?