Get the mouse position

If I have a frame and some panels on the frame, it seems I should not add the mouselisteners to the frame, but the panels. Now I can receive the mouse events. But when I try to get the mouse's position, they are the position's related to each panel. How can I get the positions associated with the frame?
Thanks!

public class MyFrame exyends JFrame implements MouseListener
implement all the methods of Interface MouseListener
e.g.
public void mouseClicked (MouseEvent e)
System.out.println("CLICKED AT " + e.getX() + "," + e,getY());

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see to it
import java.io.*;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.*;
import java.net.URL;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseMotionListener;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.media.*;
import javax.media.util.*;
import javax.media.Buffer.*;
import javax.media.format.*;
import javax.media.Format;
import javax.media.protocol.*;
import javax.media.control.*;
import javax.media.rtp.*;
import javax.media.protocol.DataSource;
import com.sun.media.ui.*;
import javax.media.format.YUVFormat;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.Vector;
import javax.imageio.*;
import javax.imageio.stream.*;
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* @param args The command line arguments
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     protected Object synchronizer;
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     JButton mark;
     JButton track;
capturing1(String fname)
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     setLocation(50, 50);
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     track=new JButton("track");
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try {
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System.getProperty("user.dir")+
"/"+fn);
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status = true;
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synchronizer.notifyAll();
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//saySomething("Mouse moved", e);
public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) {
saySomething("Mouse dragged", e);
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
//saySomething("Mouse pressed; # of clicks: "
// + e.getClickCount(), e);
public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {
//saySomething("Mouse released; # of clicks: "
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//saySomething("Mouse entered", e);
public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e) {
//saySomething("Mouse exited", e);
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saySomething("Mouse clicked (# of clicks: "
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private int imageHeight = 0;
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Format.NOT_SPECIFIED,
Format.byteArray,
Format.NOT_SPECIFIED,
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3, 2, 1,
3, Format.NOT_SPECIFIED,
Format.TRUE,
Format.NOT_SPECIFIED)
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new RGBFormat(null,
Format.NOT_SPECIFIED,
Format.byteArray,
Format.NOT_SPECIFIED,
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3, 2, 1,
3, Format.NOT_SPECIFIED,
Format.TRUE,
Format.NOT_SPECIFIED)
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int endian = incoming.getEndian();
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maxDataLength,
null,
frameRate,
Format.NOT_SPECIFIED,
Format.NOT_SPECIFIED,
Format.NOT_SPECIFIED,
Format.NOT_SPECIFIED,
Format.NOT_SPECIFIED,
lineStride,
Format.NOT_SPECIFIED,
Format.NOT_SPECIFIED));
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xpos=x; ypos=y;
/* int j =0, m=0,n=0;
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for(j=0;j<total;j++)
twodim[n][m] = p1[j];
System.out.print( twodim[n][m]+" ");
m++;
if( m ==col)
m=0; n++;
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System.out.println("m"+m+"n"+n);*/
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if u click on the mark button processor will be stopped
u can click on the image and get the mouse co-ordinates
i have also got the pixel values of the current frame at which u had clicked the mark button..do some manipulation on the pixels to get ur stuff work
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Please point out any mistake I made in the my-way-of understanding how the depth buffering works, thank you.
I'm now having problem about the "calculating the Z position" of each pixel.
As three points define a plane, I tried using this algorithm by Paul Brouke and then get the Z position with X and Y positions, along with a, b, c, and d parameters previously calculated with the three Vector3D instances that define a triangle, by this simple calculation:
z = (-ax-by-d) / c
But it did not work. Instead, the triangles were distorted.
Is there any other rather simple way to get depth buffering working? If yes, I appreciate usages of simple words to explain simple codes. If not, then... I hope you can help me in some way.
Thanks again.
greekfellows

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