[ jEdit-users ] OT: waiting for click

[Todd O'B. <tod...@ma...>]

I'm running jEdit in a lab environment using K12LTSP and everything's 
going great.

My students have been making a graphical version of Tic Tac Toe using 
some crutch classes I provided to hide some of Java's graphic 
intricacies, and I think my shoddy code is causing a major load on the 
server.

Rather than have them write a MouseListener themselves, I just provided 
one that saves the last MouseEvent into an instance variable. When they 
want to read a MouseEvent, they call a getMouseClick() method on their 
main window which looks like this:

	/**
	 * This method will wait until the user clicks somewhere in this
	 * <code>Picture</code> and then return the MouseEvent they caused
	 */
	public MouseEvent getMouseClick() {
		this.lastMouseEvent = null;
		while (lastMouseEvent == null) {
			//wait here
		}
		return lastMouseEvent;
	}

That tight while loop is really eating up my server time. Could anybody 
suggest a better way of doing this?

Thanks in advance, and sorry for the off-topic post,
Todd