Disable double click selection in a JTextComponent

Question

Generally when you double click in a text component, the entire word is selected.

I would like to disable selection of this single word but still maintain the ability to click and drag to select it.

Example: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

When I click and drag from the beginning of "The" to the end of "dog," the text is selected. However, when I double click "brown," "brown" is not selected and a different action can be preformed.

Does anyone know how I can achieve this?

Answer 1

Where edit is JTextComponent instance

DefaultCaret c=new DefaultCaret() {
    public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
        int nclicks = SwingUtilities2.getAdjustedClickCount(getComponent(), e);
        if (! e.isConsumed() &&
                SwingUtilities.isLeftMouseButton(e) &&
                nclicks == 2
                && SwingUtilities2.canEventAccessSystemClipboard(e)) {
            return;
        }

        super.mouseClicked(e);
    }
    public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
        int nclicks = SwingUtilities2.getAdjustedClickCount(getComponent(), e);
        if (! e.isConsumed() &&
                SwingUtilities.isLeftMouseButton(e) &&
                nclicks == 2
                && SwingUtilities2.canEventAccessSystemClipboard(e)) {
            return;
        }
        super.mousePressed(e);
    }
};
c.setBlinkRate(edit.getCaret().getBlinkRate());
edit.setCaret(c);