Getting absolute position of component

hi
i want to take a screenshot of the content of a specific JFrame in my ui
what the code below does is take a screenshot of my screen starting at its (0, 0) coordinates
but not starting at the so called (0, 0) of the JFrame
     Robot robot = new Robot();
     Dimension dimension = getJFrame().getSize();
     Rectangle rectangle = new Rectangle(dimension);
     BufferedImage screenShot = robot.createScreenCapture(new Rectangle(rectangle));how can i calculate the offset to the JFrame ?
i already tried all kinds of things
and didn't find any reference online
thanks

You use this on the JFrame:
//from the API
getLocationOnScreen
public Point getLocationOnScreen()Gets the location of this component in the form of a point specifying the component's top-left corner in the screen's coordinate space.
Returns:
an instance of Point representing the top-left corner of the component's bounds in the coordinate space of the screen
Throws:
IllegalComponentStateException - if the component is not showing on the screen
See Also:
setLocation(int, int), getLocation()Then use your component location as an offset from the JFrame location.

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