Jframe Resizing issue

Hello, I have a very nice and pretty JFrame displaying on my screen right now, and I have a resize method attached to the resize event, and after I have resized my jframe the event is fired. All very well. However, I only get one resize event, and that only occurrs after I release the mouse from resizing. I would like to get continuous resizing events while I am in the process of adjusting the jframe size.
If I start to resize, and I move my mouse two pixels, then I want a resize event. If I move it another 10 pixels then I want another resize event or whatever. I am not overely concerned about how many I get, but I definitely want to receive more than one event at the end.
Any ideas?

I stumbled across a reference that may help you. Take a look at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/awt/AWTChanges.html which is the AWT Enhancements in the JavaTM 2 SDK, v1.4 page. It says, among other things,
Dynamic Layout During Resize
The bugtraq report that corresponds to this change is: 4077991.
Previously, dynamic window resizing wasn't supported on all platforms. For example, on Windows NT, with solid resize on, resizing a window recalculated the layout only when the drag was finished. This has been fixed in this release with the addition of the new desktop property awt.dynamicLayoutSupported. When dynamic layout is enabled, a Container continually lays out its components as it resizes. If disabled, the layout will be validated after resizing has finished.
API changes to java.awt.Toolkit.
public void setDynamicLayout(boolean dynamic)
protected boolean isDynamicLayoutSet()
public boolean isDynamicLayoutActive()

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