BorderLayout and getHeight/getWidth

I am running a code that uses border layout to manage 2 frames. One frame is a window in which I am displaying some graphics, located in the CENTER region. I have another frame in the SOUTH location which has keyboard listeners for various commands.

When I try to run the getHeight and getWidth commands in the SOUTH frame, it only gives me the values of the south frame. I would like to be able to call up the locations of the CENTER frame, but am not quite sure how to do it.

Are you using two separate frames for one window? In that case, you should use two JPanels and one JFrame instead--that way you have one top level container managing all of the components.

Otherwise, could you post code here and be a little more specific?

Thanks for the reply. What you said makes a lot of sense and I will definitely give it a try. I am pretty new to GUI and the layout stuff, and didn't even think of that.