🚀 go-pugleaf

I've got a question regarding Event Handling, specifically catching
mouse events.

My application usesSwing Controls.  I've got a JFrame, which contains a
JPanel, which Contains a JSplitFrame, which contains some controls in
each pane.

JFrame
    JPanel
         JSplitFrame
                 JButton
                 JTextField

What I would like to do is have the JPanel catch a mouse move event when
the mouse moves any place over the pane, (which would be over the
JButton or the JTextField since they take up the entire panel). I've
implemented the processMouseMotion() method in the JPanel class.
Unfortunately the method never gets called.  I added the
processMouseMotion() to the JSplitFrame() class, and it gets called when
the mouse cursor is over the slider portion of the window but not over
any of the controls within the split panes.

I assume the control's(JButton, JTextField) are eating the mouse events
and they never get passed to container classes.

What is the procedure for passing events to container classes. Must the
containers have a processMouseMotion() and call the containers
processMouseMotion() assuming the component has a handle to the
container? Examples would be helpful.

Thanks.

Dean