Java : ignore single click on double click?

Question

can anyone think of a good way to ignore the single click that comes with a double-click in Java ?

I\'m looking to have different behaviors for each such that:

Answer 1

An alternative solution:

I figured out this before I found the solution in this question. The idea is the same, use a timer, although more complicated :).

Use SwingWorker:

class BackgroundClickHandler extends SwingWorker {
  @Override
  protected Integer doInBackground() throws Exception {
    Thread.sleep(200);
    // Do what you want with single click
    return 0;
  }

}

In mouseClicked() method you can do something like this:

 if (event.getClickCount() == 1) {
  // We create a new instance everytime since
  // the execute() method is designed to be executed once
  clickHandler = new BackgroundClickHandler();

  try {
    clickHandler.execute();
  } catch(Exception e) {
    writer.println("Here!");
  }
}

if (event.getClickCount() == 2) {
  clickHandler.cancel(true);

  //Do what you want with double click
}

I hope it be useful.