JSlider shud fire change event only when it comes to rest

[SathishVJ]

Hi,
What should I do to force the JSlider component to fire a ChangeEvent only when the component's knob has come to rest. i.e. I do not want it to fire a slew of events while the knob of the slider is being dragged.
There are functions setValueIsAdjusting and getValueIsAdjusting(boolean) that allows us to do this. However I need help on its usage or any other method.
Thanks in advance
Sathish

[Sean MacLean]

The Component is designed to throw any and all events it generates. If you only want to know when the slider has stopped, you could test for a situation when the coordinates have stopped changing. However, this may not truely represent the point at which the user has stopped sliding the component knob. What I usually do is wait for a mouseReleased event. Then you can be certain that they have 'let go' of the slider.
Sean

[SathishVJ]

Hi Sean,
Thanks for the attempt but I think there is a problem there. The slider can be moved without using a mouse, i.e. with the keyboard. Handling all those events is quite a convoluted method to achieve the result.
I tried out the following code - this time using a JScrollBar which supports a AdjustmentListener.
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class TestScroll extends JFrame {

public TestScroll(){
Container cp = getContentPane();
JScrollBar sb = new JScrollBar();
cp.add(sb, BorderLayout.EAST);
sb.addAdjustmentListener(new AdjustmentListener(){
public void adjustmentValueChanged(AdjustmentEvent e){
JScrollBar jsb = (JScrollBar) e.getAdjustable();
if (!jsb.getValueIsAdjusting())
System.out.println("Value: "+ jsb.getValue());
else System.out.println("Still moving");
}
});
}

public static void main(String args[]){
TestScroll t = new TestScroll();
t.pack();
t.show();
}
}

It works just the way I want it. But it works with the wrong component. Pls see if you can get a similar functionality for me with the JSlider.
Regds
Sathish

[eric moon]

You need to use stateChanged:
public void stateChanged(ChangeEvent e) {
JSlider slider = (JSlider)e.getSource();
int value = slider.getValue();

if (slider.getValueIsAdjusting() == false) {
//do stuff
}
}
Hope this helps!

[eric moon]

Oh and I forgot, you need a ChangeListener too.