Thank you for your time.
I changed it to if color is equal to ocean then do nothing, else get color of state.

    private void mapPanelMouseMoved(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) {

        Color ocean = new Color(image.getRGB(1, 1));
        Color color = new Color(image.getRGB(evt.getX(), evt.getY()));
        if (color.equals(ocean)) {
            //if ocean do nothing, else display state of that color
        } else {
            this.setTitle(findStateByColor(color) + borderStatesMap.get(findStateByColor(color)));
        }//end is else
    }

SasquatchProgramming, on 11 November 2012 - 07:50 PM, said:

Well I hope you're doing better than I am. I at least had the image showing up but now it won't even do that. So frustrating...

Yay! Thank you for your patience and time. This is my last Java program. Next semester it's C++ but with the same teacher

How about this? Can you start this in the middle of an array?

            for (int i = 4; i <= stateInfo.length; i++) {
                usStates.add(stateInfo[i]);
            }//end for

Good point. I moved ocean to my class scope variables.
I am hardcoding the ocean color just to be sure I get it right, for now and will find the value later.
And i changed the equivalent expression to:

    private void mapPanelMouseMoved(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) {

        Color color = new Color(image.getRGB(evt.getX(), evt.getY()));
        if (!color.equals(ocean)) {
            this.setTitle(findStateByColor(color) + borderStatesMap.get(findStateByColor(color)));
        }//end if
    }

Have I finally got a workable method again?