How to throw the mouse event to a upper level component?

Question

For example: a panel using absolute layout, and there is a label on it.
Now when mouse clicked on the label, i do not want the label but the panel to get the mouse event , so that i can get the mouse click point's x and y in the panel.
How to implement it?
Thanks a looooooooooooot for ur help
Best Regards

Answer 1

try this
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
class Testing extends JFrame
  public Testing()
    setSize(100,75);
    setLocation(300,200);
    setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    final JPanel p = new JPanel();
    JLabel lbl = new JLabel("Click Me");
    lbl.setToolTipText("OK");
    lbl.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.BLACK));
    p.add(lbl);
    getContentPane().add(p);
    lbl.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter(){
      public void mousePressed(MouseEvent me){//match method name
        p.dispatchEvent(me);}});
    p.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter(){
      public void mousePressed(MouseEvent me){//with this method name
        System.out.println("Panel clicked");}});
  public static void main(String[] args){new Testing().setVisible(true);}
}