JLayeredPane : How to get component at a specific point and ignore a layer

[SteveS]

I am working on an application that uses a JLayeredPane. I'm using the drag layer for a "drag-n-move" operation and I would like to determine what other child component the drag is occurring upon.

getComponentAt() is what I was using, however it will always return the item in the drag layer that's currently being moved because it's always going to be under the cursor!

Considering the drag layer is intended to be used for dragging stuff around I find it rather surprising that the JLayeredPanel has no default or special version of getComponentAt() to handle situations like these.

I think from the member functions of JLayeredPanel and Component I can build my own version of a function like this, but I'm surprised one doesn't already exist.