Inside Macintosh: QuickTime Reference

A New Event Model and Suite of New Classes

The current MouseController (and its subclasses SWController and GroupController) have been deprecated, as has the MouseResponder and Dragger.

This functionality has been replaced and extended with a suite of new classes in a new package: quicktime.app.event

The event package includes an event model which will be used in the future as the primary mechanism for distributing events in QuickTime for Java. It is similar in spirit to the event model that Java 1.1 adopted and the event and listener classes subclass the java.util.* event classes.

Two kinds of events are provided in this release:

QTMouseEvent
QTActionEvent

Refer to the javadoc for explanations of their usage.

There are four primary QTMouseListeners:

MouseButtonListener, used for press, click, and release events
MouseMoveListener, used for move and drag
MouseEnterExitListener, used for enter and exit events related to a quicktime.app.spaces.Space (not the awt.Component)
MouseTargetListener, used for enter and exits of members of a space.

Inside Macintosh: QuickTime Reference