Java check mouse button state

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How can I check the state of the mouse buttons in Java? I cannot use mouse events, as it involves getting 'mouse released' on an element that has never received 'mouse pressed', so I theoretically could use events if it intercepted mouse events system wide, but that would probably be a security risk. If I can't do this with java, I am happy to write a native interface, and I am developing on Mac 10.6.

AFAIK mouseReleased() actually gets called on the same element that originally received mousePressed(). Even if not, you can always have a boolean to track whether an element was pressed so you know how to deal with release — iluxa, Apr 01 '11 at 22:30

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 01 '11 at 22:44

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Global Event Listeners

answered Apr 01 '11 at 22:44

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