Order of events

[marcussilfver]

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.

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

 

[Jeff Higgins]

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?

 

[marcussilfver]

marcussilfverwrote:




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





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No, Why do you wonder?

 

[Jeff Higgins]

marcussilfver wrote:

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

No, Why do you wonder?

I wondered whether to categorize selection by keystroke
as user selection or programmatic selection.