Enable object interactor to work along with IlvManagerViewInteractor.

Question

I set an object interactor to my object but it does not work. How do I make my IlvManagerViewInteractor work with object interactors?

Answer

If you use an IlvManagerView, and you want to set an object interactor (IlvObjectInteractor or subclass) and a view interactor (IlvManagerViewInteractor or subclass) at the same time, only your view interactor will be called. You will find an explanation in the RogueWave JViews documentation, in the description of the IlvObjectInteractor:

"When an event is received by a manager view that has no associated view interactor, the event is dispatched to the manager (see IlvManagerView.processEvent(AWTEvent) and IlvManager.processEvent(AWTEvent, IlvManagerView)) The manager attempts to send it to the object interactor of the graphic object located at the mouse position."

In other words, your IlvManagerViewInteractor hides your object interactor.
If you write your own view interactor and want your object interactors to be taken into account, you must pass the event managed by the view interactor to the associated IlvManager in the method processEvent of the object interactor.

Sample code:

protected void processMouseEvent (MouseEvent event) {
// Forward to the manager for object interactors
boolean processed = getManager().processEvent(event, getManagerView());
// Call the listeners attached to the interactor. if (!processed )
super.processMouseEvent(event);
}

Starting with JViews version 6.0, IlvSelectInteractor offers the option for IlvObjectInteractor to be called on the target IlvGraphic before completing its usual event dispatching. This is done through the lvSelectInteractor.setObjectInteractorEnabled(boolean). See IlvSelectInteractor documentation for more details.

Similarly, RogueWave JTGO IltSelectInteractor will invoke the object interactor, if existed, when the InvokeObjectInteractor property is set to true.
This can be enable via the method IltSelectInteractor.setInvokeObjectInteractor(true)