Mouse clicks stop working in all Java applications.
843807Jan 4 2005 — edited Oct 17 2007I have stumbled across a strange problem that is not readily reproducable, yet many users have reported the issue to me. It seems that something can cause Java (Swing or AWT) to stop receiving mouse clicks (or presses). The mouse still moves over the components as expected. The components all react to mouse overs. Clicking on a button, for instance, does nothing. There are no exceptions thrown in the code.
The weird part is that once this problem has occured within our application, no other Java application will receive mouse clicks either (even if running under a different JVM). This seems to be a really serious bug, that is nearly impossible to debug. If anyone else has had experience with this issue, please give me any information you may have.
I'm using WinXP Professional with Java 1.4.2_05.
Once the problem occurs, the only solution is to reboot windows.