How to temporarily disable event listeners in Swing?

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You could use a common base class for your listeners and in it, have a static method to turn the listeners on or off:

public abstract class BaseMouseListener implements ActionListener{

    private static boolean active = true;
    public static void setActive(boolean active){
        BaseMouseListener.active = active;
    }

    protected abstract void doPerformAction(ActionEvent e);

    @Override
    public final void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
        if(active){
            doPerformAction(e);
        }
    }
}

Your listeners would have to implement doPerformAction() instead of actionPerformed().

(This would be awful in an enterprise scenario, but in a single-VM model like in Swing, it should work just fine)

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