Including the Bean in an Application

To include the Coordinate Viewer Bean in your application, write the following lines of code:

IlvJMouseCoordinateViewer coordViewer = new IlvJMouseCoordinateViewer();
coordViewer.setView(view);

Adding the Bean to a Swing Hierarchy

You can then add this Bean to your Swing hierarchy.

panel.add(coordViewer, BorderLayout.SOUTH);

The Coordinate Viewer Bean then attaches a Mouse Motion Listener to the view and displays the information according to the properties of the manager:

Depending on the coordinate formatter, latitude/longitude/altitude may not be the only fields. For example, a UTM coordinate system displays the zone, zone number, easting and northing information. The Coordinate Viewer uses JLabel HTML capabilities to display the different parts of the coordinates as an HTML table.

Customizing the Appearance

You can configure the appearance of the Bean using, for example:

coordViewer.setHtmlTableProperties("border=1 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0");