java - MouseListener on JFrame

Question

I want to be notified of mouse events (specifically the mouse entered and exited events) on my JFrame. But when i add a mouselistener to it i get the events on the borders of the frame not the entire frame with it's contents.

Any ideas as to why?

EDIT : Or at least do you have an alternative? I want a "gloabal" way to catch mouse events on the JFrame. Maybe a mouselistener is not the answer.

Answer 1

You can get all events and check if their source is a component in the JFrame.

See Toolkit.addAWTEventListener