Capture Mouse Focus for Applet

Hey,
I am writing an applet, and would like to capture the mouse focus entirely within my applet. Let me explain what I mean:
- You click the applet, your mouse pointer vanishes.
- Now no matter how far to the right you move your mouse, it will not pop out of the applet. It is "locked" inside.
- You are still receiving mouse events from within this applet. You have essentially changed the area of effect to be the bounds of the applet.
An example of this functioning would be any video game that runs in windowed mode. Focus the game, and you'll see that your mouse never exceeds the bounds of the applet. In windows you alt-tab and now you regain your mouse pointer.
Is this possible? Anyone know how to do it?
Thanks.
Jesse

You can get the focus by:
<script type="text/javascript">
onload = function()
document.getElementsByTagName( "applet" )[0].focus();
</script>
In the applet mousemove event:
- Set the mouse cursor to null (invisible in the applet)
- Draw a small graphic at mouse position instead, doing the bounds checking.
- This gives you a game cursor in the applet which behaves as you wish.
- The "real" cursor is only visible outside the applet.
BTW,
KeyboardFocusManager.getCurrentKeyboardFocusManager().getFocusOwner())
returns null if the applet does not have focus (handy for pausing your app)
AFAIK, applets themselves cannot grab focus (out of the sandbox)

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