Detect Key Press and Mouse Motion in ONE event?

Hi
I am trying to create a functionality where a mouse motion from left to right performs one action, and the same motion while a given key is pressed performs another action.
How can i combine the two events? How do I unify the KeyEvent and MouseEvent, particulary when I need to capture the directional motion of the mouse together with the key press?
many thanks for any insight

you cannot actualy combine them into 1 event but there is an easy way around this:boolean mouseKeyPressed = false;
public void keyPressed (KeyEvent e)
if (e.getKeyCode () == ??) \\ or e.isCtrlDown(), e.isAltDown(), ...
    mouseKeyPressed = true;
public void keyReleased (KeyEvent e)
if (e.getKeyCode () == ??) \\ or !e.isCtrlDown(), !e.isAltDown(), ...
    mouseKeyPressed = false;
public void mouseMoved (MouseEvent e)
if (mouseKeyPressed)
    //processAction
}hope this helps,
greetz,
Stijn

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