HELP PLEASE! list is killing me.

Question

Please someone help me. The actionPerformed is called based on the number of items in the list. eg. if the list has 3 items, actionPerformed will be called 3 times. However, I only double-click once.
package threadreminder;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
class TaskThread extends Thread implements ActionListener{
     private int time;
     private int id;
     private List taskListArea;
     TaskThread(List taskListArea, String task, int time, String unit){
          super(task+time);
     id++;
          this.time=time*1000;
          if(unit.equals("minutes") ){
               time=time*60;
          }else if (unit.equals("hours") ){
               time=time*60*60;
          this.taskListArea=taskListArea;
          this.taskListArea.addActionListener(this);
          this.taskListArea.add(task);
          id=taskListArea.getItemCount()-1;
     public void run(){
          try{
               Thread.sleep(time);
          }catch (InterruptedException e) {
          System.out.println("Thread wake: " + this.getName() + " " + time );
          taskListArea.select(id);
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
          List sourceList=(List)e.getSource();
          String[] tasks=sourceList.getSelectedItems();
          for (int i=0; i<tasks.length; i++){
          System.out.println(tasks);

Answer 1

I had the same problem with lists on our last application, I was trying to catch double clicks on an item in the list using an ActionListener, I changed to a MouseListener and used getClickCount() == 2 and that worked perfectly (actionPerformed was being called twice) maybe you could try this approach?