Java problem, disabled controls still fires events!

Question

I'm new to Java, I'm coding on NetBeans. The problem is that whenever I disable a control i.e jmenu.setEnabled(false) it still fires events! holy crap! how is it! :P

How can I prevent it?

Answer 1

From the javadoc:

Note: Disabling a lightweight component does not prevent it from receiving MouseEvents.

Note: Disabling a heavyweight container prevents all components in this container from receiving any input events. But disabling a lightweight container affects only this container.

You might want to check out disableEvents(long mask).