Mouse clicks on windows without focus

Is there a way to recognize when a user is clicking on a defocused JFrame, to bring it to the front, as opposed to clicking to set a text cursor position within the JFrame? For example, if I click on a terminal emulator I've developed, the text cursor within the emulation window goes to the click, even if the emulator is only being clicked to give it focus. (I've also noticed a similar phenomenon with JBuilder, by the way.)
By comparison, look at any native Windoze or Macintosh application; very few (if any) behave that way.

This must be very hard for LabView to do. I just need to use LabView to run another application. Then have labview emulate a mouse click on that application. I have found out the windows message using Spy++ for the mouse click. Now in LabView I need to move the mouse to a certain position on that application. How could LabView know where to move the mouse cursor. I found some move cursor vi on this forum, then the coordinate of the position on the application (the active window) is not known. Do I need to map out the position in advance using Spy++? That seems not reasonable as later on the position may change.
LabView is indeed good for Hardware automation and data acquisition, but when it comes to performing some software automation tasks (i.e., runing a couple of other applications automatically), it doesn't seem to be powerful at all, unless the other applications are ActiveX capable, or you have their code to build Dlls. Most of time, one only need to automate the process of running a couple of other programs, then have data presented.

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Download a program called AppleMouse at http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Other-Desktop-Enhancements/App le-Mouse-Utility.shtml. Unzip it the copy-and-paste "applemou.exe" to this directory through Windows Explorer: C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR USER NAME\Start Menu\Programs\Startup. Once copied, restart your computer back into Windows and login. You'll be able to right-click by holding down the control (ctrl) button and clicking.
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I'm using LabVIEW 8.6, I would like to give an unusual behavior to a subVI window when opened: I'd like the window to be activated without giving focus to it. What I mean, is that I would like the window to be able to catch even on the front panel like keystroke or mouse click without giving focus to this window. I'd like the focus to stay on another window.
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I googled your question and I found some good information this MSDN forum, I think it may help you to apply it to your code.
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Hello,
I am attempting to create my own Automator programs and for a while I had some that worked nicely. I have recently been tweaking my iMac so that it can "think" on its own (by automator of course) and do things for me. However, I've run across a block with Mavericks (I believe it's due to Mavericks).
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I'll think of more of course, but the mouse click, keyboard stroke, and moving windows is the big thing I'm trying to figure out how to do. Can anyone help?
Also, I am not a computer tech. I am tinkering with this because it's fun and helpful, but an answer of "just use applescript" or "just use java" will likely just give me a headache. I know that it's going to be one of those codes, but I'm hoping someone has a "base" code that can be copied and pasted that's just a standard click that I can adjust for where I need to click and what process I need to click on.
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You're asking for a lot in one post. It would be better to break your requests down a bit.
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