How to detect only single click and not double-click mouse events in Swing?

Question

Hi,
In my application, I want to implement a functionality only for single click. But problem is on double click, first i can see a single click and then double click.
i.e e.getCount() return 1 and then 2 for double click. I want to avoid this situation.
Shouldn't it be just one event with a clickCount of 2? or any alternative solution?
Please let me know how can i stop this.
Thanks in advance..
Cheers
Somasekhar
Edited by: SomasekharPatil on Mar 13, 2009 3:36 PM

Answer 1

Maybe something like the below example:
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseListener;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.Timer;
public class SingleClickOnly {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
     SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
         @Override
         public void run() {
          new SingleClickOnly().createGUI();
    public void createGUI() {
     JFrame frame = new JFrame();
     frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
     JLabel label = new JLabel("Only acts on a single click");
     label.addMouseListener(createListener());
     frame.add(label);
     frame.pack();
     frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
     frame.setVisible(true);
    public MouseListener createListener() {
     return new MouseAdapter() {
         private int clickCount = 0;
         private final Timer timer = new Timer(1000, new ActionListener() {
          @Override
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
              if (clickCount == 1) {
               System.out
                    .println("Executing action on click count 1 only");
          timer.setRepeats(false);
         @Override
         public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent event) {
          clickCount = event.getClickCount();
          System.out.println("Clicked: " + clickCount);
          if (clickCount == 1) {
              if (timer.isRunning()) {
               timer.stop();
              timer.start();
}Piet