How to create an image map using Java Swing?

Question

I need to make an image map using Swing that displays a background image, and then when the mouse hovers over (or clicks) specific hotspots, I need to pop up a \'zoomed-in\' ima

Answer 1

I would probably:

• create some instance of Shape that represents each of your hotspots (could be a plain boring old Rectangle, or see GeneralPath if you need to create fancy shapes)
• register a MouseListener which iterates through each of the Shapes and calls its contains() method to see if the clicked coordinate is inside the hotspot in question