How do I pass an event up the component hierarchy?

I have a child component which has a mouse listener and a parent component with a mouse listener. However the child component consumes all the mouse events so the parent doesn't get them.
Is there a way for a child component to receive mouse events, then decided to pass them back up the component hierarchy so the parent can still receive them too?
I've spent the last two hours on Google and can't seem to find anything relevant.
Cheers, Eric

Unfortunately, you cannot
override this method since it ispackage-private.
That was wrong of mine. Package-private members are
visible to subclasses too (the package access is a
complete superset of protected access). So you CAN
override dispatchEventImpl and do your stuff there.
When I try that the compiler gives me the following warning
The method SheetElementPlacementComponent.dispatchEventImpl(AWTEvent) does not override the inherited method from Container since it is private to a different package.
It lets me define the method, but does not let me override it.
I just wonder why they made dispatchEvent() final,
when it just calls dispatchEventImpl(), and it is
not final...
Another useful method is Component.enableEvents()
and disableEvents() (which are both protected). You
can use them to modify the so called event mask of a
component, which is used to signify which events a
Component is interested in. Disabled events (= not
on the event mask) are not delivered to the
component and the dispatcher skips it, looking for
parent components which have enabled the event. For
example, if you have a JButton in a scroll pane and
you scroll the mouse wheel on the button, the event
is dispatched to the scroll pane, even though it
occurs over the surface of the button. That's
because a button is not interested in mouse wheel
events.
You can use that hack the following way: In the
mouse listener for your child component, after you
have done your work, disable mouse events for the
component and then post the event again (invoke
dispatchEvent(theEvent)). That way, the event should
be delivered to the closest parent that is
interested in mouse events. This is done
synchronously, so after all listeners for the parent
components have finished, the dispatchEvent() method
returns in your listener for the child component.
Then you re-enable mouse events on the child
component in order to receive the next mouse event.
I don't know if this works or if it has any side
effects, but it's worth a try...I can't call dispatchEvent() because it creates an infinite loop resulting in a stack overflow. It tried calling((JComponent) getParent()).dispatchEvent(e); but this does not help either, the parent never gets the event.
Hope this helps you more :).
Greets,
MikeSorry, I still can't find a way around it other than to redesign my UI.
FYI I created a bug report and Sun have assigned it Bug Id: 6571453. Everyone please vote on this if you think it's a cool feature request.
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6571453
Cheers, Eric

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