At Tom Ball's recommendation, I'm submitting this as an RFE.

To do hotlists and other sorts of shared palettes properly, I need an Event that's guaranteed to be delivered to any Frame that contains a Component that receives the focus. So clicking in an applet's TextField, for instance, will deliver a GOT_FOCUS to the TextField, and also deliver something like a FRAME_GOT_FOCUS to its Frame.

The motivation is that I want to be able to have shared palette windows that apply their operations to the 'current' window. So when the user clicks on a URL in a hotlist window, for instance, the hotlist can open that URL in the browser window the user's got active. This frees us from having to associate a hotlist or other palette with each application frame.

Tom claims the cost of implementing this is small, and the payoff for app writers is potentially huge.