Can I set the selected item for a JList without having an event thrown to the listeners?

Question

I am working on a viewer, which uses a JList to show thumbnails of the pages of a document. The user can open a page by selecting it through in the JList, or throught other

Answer 1

It looks like setSelectedIndex() is just a convenient way to set the selection in the ListSelectionModel. Maybe your ListModel could flag or cache the result so it won't get loaded a second time.