Can you catch/suppress events?

I have a subroutine that updates items in a form, but I don't want it to generate any action events. Is there a way to catch events or suppress event generation in a subroutine? I still want the application to recognize events generated by user input.

Example:

Code:

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import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class MyPanel extends JPanel implements ActionListener {
    private JComboBox boxA;
    private JCheckBox check;
    private MyObject someObject;
    public MyPanel(MyObject anObject) {
        this.boxA = new JComboBox();
        this.boxA.addItem("Item1");
        this.boxA.addItem("Item2");
        this.boxA.addActionListener(this);
        this.check = new JCheckBox();
        this.check.addActionListener(this);
        this.add(boxA);
        this.add(check);
        this.someObject = anObject;
    }
    // this method I do not want to generate any events
    public void update(String cbData, boolean isCheck) {
        this.boxA.setSelectedItem(cbData);
        this.check.setSelected(isCheck);
    }
    // this method should be able to get events triggered by user
    public void ActionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) {
        // get swing component values and update someObject
        ...
    }
}

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Your code as shown does not generate events where the comment states you do not want events generated.

It does. As soon as I update the combo box, it generates comboBoxChanged events. But in actionPerformed, I'm updating an object. I don't want to update the object with what I just displayed in the combobox. It's unnecessary cpu cycles.

Of course, as soon as I submitted this question I thought of a solution. I'll set a flag at the beginning of update, remove the flag at the end of update, and check for the flag in actionPerformed. If the flag exists, then we're in the middle of update. If it doesn't exist, then it's a user event.