Find browser or applets absolute position

Question

Hi,
I am designing an applet where I open a number of small pop up windows at the beginning of the applet. Users of this system have two monitors, thus I need to determine where they have positioned the browser so that the windows will open above the browser. At the time the windows open there is nothing else on the screen so getLocation doesn't work.
If I can determine the absolute position of the applet this would also do.
All help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I use the following to get a reference to a Frame which I pass to a JDialog constructor to ensure that the Dialog is always centred over an Applet no matter where the Applet is positioned on screen. Maybe you can adapt it for your needs.
public Frame getDialogFrame()
          /* creates and positions a Frame used by dialogs
          *  to ensure that dialog is modal and centred over the Applet
          Object parent = this.getParent();
          while(!(parent instanceof Frame))
    parent=((Component)parent).getParent();
          Frame dialogFrame = (Frame) parent;
          Point p = this.getLocationOnScreen();
          dialogFrame.setLocation(p.x, p.y);
          return dialogFrame;
     }