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Hi all.
i am working on this class project, its tool demonstrating automated car driving.there is a speedometer and an acceleration and deceleration button.
the problem is, the speedometer is supposed to show an increase/decrease in speed only if the button is long pressed..and what i have always done, is to reaction only if a button is clicked once. so how do i do that?
You can add status variable to remember the status of the button. When the button was clicked change the status to pressed = true, and when the click happen again change the status to pressed = false. Then based on this status you can increase or decrease your speedometer.
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@wsaryada: I interpret the question as being about pressing and holding a button, not clicking and then clicking again.
There's an approach I suggested on another forum, but on rethinking it, you could probably use a PropertyChangeListener to better effect. Can't test that right now as my power just went out and I'm running on a UPS so have to shut down.
Let us know what you tried.
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@wsaryada, its about pressing and holding a button, like DarrylBurke's interpretation.
@DarrylBurke, i have seen the approach on the other forum , but am yet to try it out..
i will let you know what happens..and i would also like to know about the PropertyChangeListener, i have never heard about it,
i hope you let me know when your power comes back,
thanks
Don't be so helpless. A search on "PropertyChangeListener Java Tutorial" would have yielded this top result: How to Write a Property Change Listener (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing > Writing Event Listeners)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ksammie01
The point of using a PCL rather than a MouseListener is that a button press may come from a keyboard action (spacebar in most LaFs).
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Myself, I wouldn't use a PropertyChangeListener but rather would use a ChangeListener added to the JButton's model, and then check the model's isPressed() method inside of the listener and act accordingly.
Yup, that's a better approach.
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problem solved:(whew):
since i was using the mouse to press the button, i used mouse listener..
got the job done!
Fubarable's solution is much better; it gives you consistent behavior regardless of how the button is pressed.
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This is a bad solution, very bad as you loose much functionality from the button. For instance, if you disable the JButton, you will prevent the MouseListener from firing. Please don't do this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ksammie01