Adding a MouseListener to a JFrame

Question

I want my JFrame to be notified when a cell in a JTable is double clicked (so I can do some processing and then close the frame).
I thought I could add a MouseListener to the JFrame. However, the JTable processes, then consumes, the mouse event so the JTable never receives the MouseEvent. I attempted to override the processMouseEvent method of JTable to dispatch an event to the JFrame, but it didn't work as the event was sent back to the JTable.
Here is the simple program I am using to test my problem. (Note, in the real application the JFrame, contains class1, which contains class2, which contains the JTable, so it not simply a matter of the JTable invoking a method in the JFrame class.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.table.*;
public class MouseTable extends JFrame
     JFrame frame;
     public MouseTable()
          frame = this;
          JTable table = new JTable(4, 3)
               protected void processMouseEvent(MouseEvent e)
                    System.out.println( "Click count: " + e.getClickCount() );
                    super.processMouseEvent(e);
                    //  this event is dispatched back to here, not the frame
                    if (e.getClickCount() == 2)
                         MouseEvent me =
                         new MouseEvent(frame, e.getID(), 0, 0, 0, 0, 9, false);
                         frame.dispatchEvent(me);
          JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane( table );
          getContentPane().add( scrollPane );
          frame.addMouseListener( new MouseAdapter()
               public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e)
                    System.out.println("Clicked: " + e);
     public static void main(String[] args)
          MouseTable frame = new MouseTable();
          frame.setDefaultCloseOperation( EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
          frame.pack();
          frame.setVisible(true);
}1) Click on the viewport, the JFrame receives the mouse event
2) Click on the JTable, the JFrame does not receive the mouse event
Any ideas on why the dispatchEvent doesn't work?
Any other better approaches?

Answer 1

I did read the documentation correctly. The ID field should represent the mouse event you want to generate. Here are the ids:
MOUSE_CLICKED = 500
MOUSE_PRESSED = 501
MOUSE_RELEASED = 502
MOUSE_MOVED = 503
MOUSE_ENTERED = 504
MOUSE_EXITED = 505
In my simple example I used the following condition to dispatch an event to the JFrame:
if (e.getClickCount() == 2)
When I changed the condition to the following (which is what I really want), the program stops working:
if (e.getID() == MouseEvent.MOUSE_CLICKED && e.getClickCount() == 2)
The bottom line is that it appears the mouse event is still dispatched to the JTable even though the JFrame is specified as the object source. I gave up trying to figure out why.
However, all is not lost as I have found a better(?) way to accomplish what I want. In the constructor of my JFrame I add an AWTListener to listen for double click events:
//  Listen for mouse double clicks directly from the AWT Event Queue
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().addAWTEventListener( new AWTEventListener()
     public void eventDispatched(AWTEvent e)
          if (e.getID() == MouseEvent.MOUSE_CLICKED)
               MouseEvent me = (MouseEvent)e;
               if (me.getClickCount() == 2)
                    doProcessingHere();
}, AWTEvent.MOUSE_EVENT_MASK  );