Jbutton: Button held down or clicked

Question

Hello. I am implementing an mp3 player in Java. I want to implement a button that behaves differently when it is held down and when it is just clicked. For example, when the button is held down,fast forward is called. When the button is just clicked, it goes to the next song in the playlist.
I have tried to implement this with the mouse listeners mouseclicked, pressed and released but it is hard to get only one action happening at a time. My main question is how do you differentiate betwen a button being held down and a button just being clicked?
here is a snippet of my non functional code:
nextSongButton.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
// go to next song
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent event) {
System.out.println("entering mouseclicked");
int m = event.getModifiers();
System.out.println(event.getClickCount());
if ((event.getClickCount() == 1) && ((m & InputEvent.BUTTON1_MASK) != 0 )) {
mp3Playlist.playNextSong();
updateFileInfo();
// Do fast forward
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent event) {
System.out.println("entering mousepressed");
if (fastForwardState.equals("OFF")) {
mp3Playlist.fastForward();
fastForwardState = "ON";
// Go back to normal play
public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent event) {
System.out.println("entering mousereleased");
mp3Playlist.normalPlayback();
fastForwardState = "OFF";
Any code sample similar to the above would be very helpfull. Maybe I can implement this with some kind of timer delay? It could trigger after the button is held down for half a second.
Thank you very much for your help.

Answer 1

The thought that first occurs to me is to use a thread. Start the thread in mousePressed and kill it in mouseReleased. The thread will wait 1 sec, then 'turn on' FF (unless it gets killed first). Also stop FF in mouseReleased.