Trapping successive mouse clicks in a swing app

[MGoel]

Hi Folks,

We have a swing based applet application. In this applet we have several forms with buttons to move to next screen.

Now when we are on the beginning form and click on Next button using mouse quickly several times it moves to that many screens ahead even though there are checks that certain inputs are required.

How can we stop this to happen and do not let the mouse clicks to move to next set of screens without being validated first.

Thanks in advance,

Manoj

 

[HavaTheJut]

You could force a delay on the buttons. When you click on a button, create a short timed thread (ie one that dies after 2 seconds). When the button is clicked again, ensure that the timed thread is not alive before advancing to the next page (or creating a new thread). There is probably a more elegant way to do this, but this is the first thing that popped into my head.