How to separate double click action and single click action

Question

in my mouse action listerner for JTable.
i do two actions, when user doule click column header, sort the column,
when single clicked, select all cells in this column.
but when user double clicked, the action attached with single click also triggered.(column sorted but also selected)
how to separate them.

Answer 1

Ok, so despite my earlier suggestion being basically the only solution offered anyway on the web it appears that Lokust is correct and that the single click operation would be performed as well as the double click one. to get round this u have to implement a Timer, i'm not going to post my whole code here because most of it is irrelevent, just add this code in the correct places and it should work fine. apologies to all format junkies for not using code tags!
import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimeTask;
public class WhateverClassName implements MouseListener {
private Timer t;
private boolean doubleclick;
myTable.addMouseListener(this);
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
     t = new Timer();
     if (e.getClickCount() == 2){
          doubleclick = true;
     else if(e.getClickCount()==1){
          t.schedule(new MyTimerTask(),500);
/*You need all these methods as well */
/* (non-Javadoc)
* @see java.awt.event.MouseListener#mouseEntered(java.awt.event.MouseEvent)
public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent arg0) {
/* (non-Javadoc)
* @see java.awt.event.MouseListener#mouseExited(java.awt.event.MouseEvent)
public void mouseExited(MouseEvent arg0) {
/* (non-Javadoc)
* @see java.awt.event.MouseListener#mousePressed(java.awt.event.MouseEvent)
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent arg0) {
/* (non-Javadoc)
* @see java.awt.event.MouseListener#mouseReleased(java.awt.event.MouseEvent)
public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent arg0) {
class MyTimerTask extends TimerTask{
/* (non-Javadoc)
* @see java.util.TimerTask#run()
     public void run() {
          if(doubleclick){
               System.out.print("double click");
          else{
               System.out.println("single click");
          t.cancel();
This assumes that for it to be considered a double click user has to click twice within .5 seconds.
Let me know if that works or not, sorry its a bit messy!