Question

I am coding a Java game that uses mouse actions. I have a point msc in my main class – it gets changed whenever I press the mouse and gets set to (0, 0) whenever I release the mouse. For the buttons, they check if msc is inside their rectangle, and if so, call click.

One of the buttons is supposed to toggle a boolean; when I click on it though, it switches true and false very fast because msc gets updated every time paintComponent is called.

Here is the code for the button click method:

if (button.contains(Screen.msc)) {
    beenClicked = true;
    this.width = this.width - 2;
    this.height = this.height - 2;
    this.x = this.x + 1;
    this.y = this.y + 1;
    g.setColor(currColor);
    textColor = Color.YELLOW;
}

but that is not where the problem is I think. Here is the code that changes msc:

public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {
    Screen.msc = new Point(0, 0);
}

public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
    Screen.msc = new Point((e.getX()) - ((Frame.size.width - Screen.myWidth) / 2), e.getY() - ((Frame.size.height - (Screen.myHeight)) - (Frame.size.width - Screen.myWidth) / 2));
}

and the code for what happens when the specific toggle button is clicked:

if (toggleToolTips.clicked()) {
    if (Screen.canDrawTooltip) {
        Screen.canDrawTooltip = false;
    } else if(!Screen.canDrawTooltip){
        Screen.canDrawTooltip = true;
    }
}   

The problem is every time I go and click the button, the boolean switches back and forth real fast. When I hold it, it just rapidly and continually switches. I would like to make it so that I click once and it switches once.

Answer 1

Your setting the boolean beenClicked but are not checking it anywhere. I would suggest trying

if (!beenClicked && toggleToolTips.clicked()) 
{   
    Screen.canDrawTooltip = !Screen.canDrawTooltip);
}

And setting beenClicked back to false somewhere such as mouseReleased.