How to properly use the MouseMotionListener to press JButtons?
I have made a small Conway Game of Life program. I'm about 80% done. I have used a grid of JButtons as the cells. Right now I have a ButtonListener on every button so you have to one-by-one draw the pattern you want by clicking on individual buttons. I want to be able to click and drag the mouse and select buttons quickly. I used the MotionListener class, implementing the MouseMotionListener and coded the mouseDragged method in an identical fashion as my actionPerformed method in my ButtonListener class. I thought the logic should be the same but I'm definitely missing something. I played