Perform one action at a time

[Melki]

Dear all,

When I click a button in my Swing application then it should be made that no other actions can be performed using the mouse until that action is completed.

Please give your ideas regarding this.

Thank you.

[Fubarable]

what do you mean by "no other actions can be performed using the mouse"? Do you mean that other buttons and components are not enabled until some action is complete? Can you post a small compilable program that shows an idea of what you're trying to do?

[Fubarable]

To the original poster, cross-posting can frustrate anyone who tries to help you only to find out later that the same answer was given hours ago in a cross-posted thread. No one likes wasting their time, especially a volunteer. The polite thing to do would be to not do this, but if you feel that you absolutely must, to at least provide links in both cross-posts to each other.

Freeze the GUI on a button click process. (Swing / AWT / SWT / JFace forum at JavaRanch)

[Melki]

I am having a GUI where i will be having four or five buttons more than that i will be having a tree also. For each buttons there will be an action called, on the same time in the tree also on selecting each node of the tree an action will be performed. So when the user clicks one of the buttons then I should not allow him to click other buttons until the action of this(clicked) button is completed. Also I should not allow him to click the nodes of the trees also.

I hope this will give you an idea.

Thank you.

[Fubarable]

Since I have no idea if someone else is giving the same suggestion elsewhere in a cross-post and am not in the mood to do futile work, I'm dropping this thread. Best of luck.

[jacob6900]

I am assuming you are using the MouseClicked event. Using the ActionPerformed should (depending on your jre version) keep the mouse down until the functions within its scope are complete. A hack I have used before is to create a Boolean canClick, set it to false on click, then when all functions are complete set it to true. The other buttons would check this and if false, they would not click.

[Melki]

Thank you jacob it seems as a good idea, I will work on it but does java has any objects that would seperately monitor the changes in the GUI. Because if such an Object exist means then I hope it will be usefull to us in many ways.

Thank you.