Rotating a scene while holding down the mouse?

Question

Hello Java Development community,
I'm currently working on the beginnings of a 3D game that allows rotation, translation, and zooming of the scene/camera, but I've come across a problem that I can't solve. I want the scene to continually rotate when I press my mouse down on a side of the canvas and hold it there, but I'm not sure how to do that. I have a MouseListener that tells me where the user clicked/pressed and thus which way to rotate, but it will only rotate one unit per click. I want it to continually rotate at some rate while the mouse is held down. I don't know if this is possible, but any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Jake

Answer 1

Sorry, I wasn't that clear in the original post. I have a MouseListener and a MouseMotionListener. I have been able to record mousePressed and mouseDragged events, but mouseDragged events only fire when the mouse is held down and moved from the place where it was clicked. I want the scene to rotate while the mouse is held down and not moving. Maybe I'm missing something really basic or obvious here... I had tried making a silly loop in the mousePressed method that checks to see whether some boolean toggled by the mouseDragged method is true or not, but that doesn't seem to work because the program never leaves the loop to record other events that would change the loop condition...
e.g. public class MyMouseListener implements MouseListener {
      public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
            condition = true;
            while (condition) {
                 System.out.println("hi");
                 // rotate scene by x degrees
public class MyMouseMotionListener implements MouseMotionListener {
      public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) {
            condition = false;
            System.out.println("bye");
} Stupid, I know. But maybe it will help you see my problem.
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