Is there any tool to find the location of a componenet in the frame in Swing?

[Thennam Pandian]

Hi,

We have tool to locate each component in a web page. Also we can change the location of component in run-time.
I need a similar tool to locate each component in a frame.

It will be very useful to locate the component, if it not visible in frame.

[Maneesh Godbole]

I am not aware of any such tool. I doubt if its more than a few lines of code.

From the top of my head, in pseudo code
1) Get all child components inside a Container(hint)
2) Get the bounds(hint) of each child
3) Use recursion

[Campbell Ritchie]

Don't you get the components as an array if you use the right method, so you can recursively traverse that array?

[Darryl Burke]

Or -
- get the component's location on screen
- get the window ancestor for the component (SwingUtilities method)
- get the window's location on screen
- do the math