Two Different MouseListener Actions on mouseClicked()

Hello, I am fairly inexperienced with Swing, as i have just started playing around with it a few days ago. I came across a problem with MouseListener. I want to be able to have two different mouseClicked() events, when the first time a panel is clicked, it is selected, as it will be drawn with a different colored border. Then, when it is clicked a second time, it is deselected. I thought of maybe using two different mouse listeners, but they would both happen at the same time then, because i do not know a way to let the computer distinguish between the two different clicks. How would you go about doing this?

Remember that a mouse listener is just a class object, so it can have state; so you can solve your problem with one mouse listener that keeps (and changes) its state.

kind regards,

Jos

I'm not sure as to how to change its state. How would you do that?

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I'm not sure as to how to change its state. How would you do that?

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Keep a boolean variable, maybe named isSelected.

Then when you click the first time you do:

Code:

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if (isSelected)
{
    panel.setBorder(oneColor);
    isSelected = true;
}
else
{
    panel.setBorder(anotherColor);
    isSelected = false;
}

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Thank you. It was simple, but for some reason i couldn't realize to do that.:(handshake):