[Biojava-dev] GUI object manipulation

[Andreas Prlic]

Hi Russ,


> One thing I'm going to need is the ability to display a cursor on  
> trace and
> sequence data.  This is fairly easily handled on an individual object  
> basis
> but it's not uncommon to have a set of objects who all want to display  
> the
> same cursor position (consider a trace with the symbols and a ruler
> underneath)

For drawing a cursor over some other objects you also might want to  
have a look at
JLayeredPane
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/ 
layeredpane.html

Cheers,
Andreas

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