Re: Order of events

From:
"Jeff Higgins" <oohiggins@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 20 May 2008 20:59:12 -0400
Message-ID:
<ItKYj.53$5g7.15@newsfe02.lga>
marcussilfver wrote:

I am trying to distinguish between a combobox selection made
programatically and a combobox selection made by the user. I have code
like the following:

comboBox1.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter(){
  public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent evt) {
     comboBox1Clicked = true;
  }
});

comboBox1.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
     if (comboBox1Clicked)
     {
        System.out.println("This selection was made by the user");
        comboBox1Clicked = false;
     }
     else
        System.out.println("This selection was made by the program");
  }
});

This seems to be working fine. I am not confident though that it will
always do that.


Just out of curiosity, can the user select items with key strokes?

In which order will events be fired? Will the mouseClicked event
always be fired before the actionPerformed event?
I need it to always work on both Windows and Mac OS.

thanks

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