Sensing hover over outer edge of a Path2D circle in JPanel [duplicate]

Answer 1

Not sure if this will work but you can try something like:

1. Create a Shape circle that is a couple of pixels smaller than your original Shape
2. Create a Shape circle that is a couple of pixels larger than your original Shape
3. Create an Area object using the larger Shape
4. Create an Area object using the smaller Shape and subtract this Area from the larger Area
5. Use the contains(...) method to determine if the mouse point is within this Area.