java - Global Event Listeners with AWTEventListener & how to pull MouseEvent's from it

Question

The following question is based on the following information. Scroll down to see the actual question - it refers to the console output specifically.

I have stripped out everything, and provided a simple program to reproduce the output below:

import java.awt.AWTEvent;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.event.AWTEventListener;

import javax.swing.JFrame;

public class Main {
    static Toolkit tk = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
    static long eventMask = AWTEvent.MOUSE_MOTION_EVENT_MASK + AWTEvent.MOUSE_EVENT_MASK
           + AWTEvent.KEY_EVENT_MASK;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        tk.addAWTEventListener(new AWTEventListener() {
            @Override
            public void eventDispatched(AWTEvent e) {
                System.out.println(e.getID() + ", " + e);
            }
        }, eventMask);

        JFrame test = new JFrame();
        test.setBounds(0, 0, 100, 100);
        test.setVisible(true);
    }
}

You will see that it gives the following output in the console:

500, java.awt.event.MouseEvent[MOUSE_CLICKED,(71,54),absolute(71,54),button=1,modifiers=Button1,clickCount=1] on frame0
501, java.awt.event.MouseEvent[MOUSE_PRESSED,(71,54),absolute(71,54),button=1,modifiers=Button1,extModifiers=Button1,clickCount=1] on frame0
506, java.awt.event.MouseEvent[MOUSE_DRAGGED,(70,54),absolute(70,54),modifiers=Button1,extModifiers=Button1,clickCount=0] on frame0
502, java.awt.event.MouseEvent[MOUSE_RELEASED,(67,54),absolute(67,54),button=1,modifiers=Button1,clickCount=1] on frame0
503, java.awt.event.MouseEvent[MOUSE_MOVED,(67,55),absolute(67,55),clickCount=0] on frame0
503, java.awt.event.MouseEvent[MOUSE_MOVED,(65,91),absolute(65,91),clickCount=0] on frame0
505, java.awt.event.MouseEvent[MOUSE_EXITED,(65,92),absolute(65,92),button=0,clickCount=0] on frame0

My question is - how can I get access to in individual entities in this

[MOUSE_RELEASED,(67,54),absolute(67,54),button=1,modifiers=Button1,clickCount=1]

without parsing out the data?

I need global event listeners in my situation. I've never used them before so I'm sure it's something I'm overlooking. Related question (where this all spawned from), Java check mouse button state

Answer 1

Just check e instanceof MouseEvent and get all the parameters from the MouseEvent

public void eventDispatched(AWTEvent e) { 
  if (e instanceof MouseEvent) {
    MouseEvent  me=(MouseEvent)e;
  } 
}

long KEY_EVENTS = AWTEvent.KEY_EVENT_MASK;
long MOUSE_EVENTS = AWTEvent.MOUSE_EVENT_MASK;
long MOUSE_MOTION_EVENTS = AWTEvent.MOUSE_MOTION_EVENT_MASK;