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The easiest way to do this is to use the JLayeredPane. Replacing the glass
pane can cause problems with lightweight popups.

Dave

"Erik Berry" <eb@techie.ZZZcom> wrote in message
news:MPG.148b80bd71a8fb0e98976a@newsgroups.borland.com...
>   I need any one of the following things, but none seem to be
> easy/possible:
>
>   Can I install a completely "passive" glass pane such that it is
> notified of mouse events, but still passes them onto the lower pane?  It
> should also pass on getCursor() calls, etc.  Manually deciding where to
> pass mouse events is very complex - even the Sun example doesn't do it
> correctly.
>
>   Or, is there an "automated" function to determine what would have been
> the destination component for a mouse event given the mouse event
> delivered to the glass pane (findComponentAt isn't good enough because
> of dragging, menus, exited, etc.)?
>
>   Or, is there a way other than a glass pane to paint on top of swing
> components?
>
>   Or, as a last resort, how can I get the current mouse cursor position
> in a non-mouse event method?
>
>   I've looked in two books and all over the usenet search engines, and
> I'm not finding any help on this issue.
>
> Thanks,
> Erik