MouseListener is not firing fast enough

Question

I have a Class extending JFrame that is watching for a mouse click anywhere:

addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
    public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e){
        System.out.println("mouse was clicked");
    }
});

I usually have to wait nearly a second between clicks to trigger the event. If I make 2 or 3 clicks in a second, only one event fires. How do you watch for fast click events?

This is my first time using Java and I'm using NetBeans.

Answer 1

Try using mousePressed instead of mouseClicked. mouseClicked looks for multiple button clicks, so it will coalesce some events.

Answer 2

To expand a little on what @Ricky Clarkson said: MousePressed will fire every time a mouse button is pressed; MouseReleased will fire every time a mouse button is released, and MouseClicked events will fire every time the OS feels that the user is done clicking (i.e. they have clicked enough to overflow the click count or there was enough time from their last click for it to count as the finished click). the user presses and releases the mouse event.

If you want information on a mouse press, then use the MousePressed event. Otherwise, you will get the event of a MouseClicked whenever the OS wants to give it to Java, which can depend greatly on the settings of the system (i.e. how long of a delay is set in the System options - like the Control Panel - to allow for double clicks).

Hope this helps clarify.

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Edit: Removed my statements related to the OS information - it seems I was mistaken in my recollection of how this worked. My apologies.