Finding component under cursor - Container.findComponentAt() troubles

Question

Hi,
I'm using Container.findComponentAt to ask the root application Window to find which component is under the cursor. The I build the context sensitive message depending on what is under the cursor.
I have found following problems, mainly with pop-ups and menus.
- findComponentAt refuses to find menu element if menu sticks outside the limits of Window I ask to find component.
- findComponentAt refuses to find any popup-menu element - it always returns the "first hit" which is usually the component below the popupmenu
I'm using 1.6 JRE.
My question is: does anybody knows the other way to find what is under cursor? Without adding mouse motion listeners to every component I mean. Just a single piece of code to find where mouse events would get next.
Regards,
Tomasz Sztejka

Answer 1

It is stupid to answer to myself, but possibly some of You may benefit from that.
The way to get a trace on what is under the cursor is:
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().addAWTEventListener(
               new java.awt.event.AWTEventListener()
                    public void eventDispatched(AWTEvent event)
                         if (event.getID()==MouseEvent.MOUSE_ENTERED)
                              Object o = event.getSource();
                              if (o instanceof Component)
                                   traced_mouse_item = (Component)o;
                         }else
                         if (event.getID()==MouseEvent.MOUSE_EXITED )
                              traced_mouse_item = null;
               AWTEvent.MOUSE_EVENT_MASK
                                        );and then follow changes in traced_mouse_item variable.
Silly me.