Robot Class (Screen Capture)

Hello friends,
i have a problem and i don't know if it's a bug or something wrong with my code i just developed this code below to create a screencapture application and i do get the screen capture in the jpeg format but the problem is that i don't see the mouse pointer in the screenshot that i get why don't i see the mouse pointer when i can see everthing else
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.Image.*;
import javax.imageio.*;
import java.io.*;
public class test{
public static void main(String args[]){
try{
Robot tt=new Robot();
Rectangle screen=new Rectangle(1024,768);
File f1 = new File("/home/hari/java/test.jpg");
javax.imageio.ImageIO.write(tt.createScreenCapture(screen),"jpg",f1);
}catch(Exception e){System.out.println(e);}
I would like u guys to go through this code and check my claims
one more thing u need jdk1.4 for this as iam using java advanced imaging api
Thanks in advance
regards
hari

Hey,
Why did you ask me that question this is a fully functional code tested on linux and windows and works, Except for i don't see the mouse pointer at all as i already mentioned you should have jdk1.4 for this
Please let me know as my running out of patience because of this problem
regards
hari

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