Hover effect on JLabel

[9Nimo4]

How would I get a box to appear when I hover over a JLabel? The box is to explain what the label is. This is just a minor detail for the user-interface functionality of a game. So when a user hovers over a label, a box appears explaining it.

[NormR1]

If you wrote your own code you would need to listen to mouse movement and detect a hover. When detected, get the component under the mouse and display a window.

Isn't there a tooltip class to do this?

[JamesCherrill]

Yes there is. javax.swing.JToolTip

http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/tooltip.html