Is there a way to prevent a table from sending events to its selection
listeners when programmically setting the row?

The problem I am facing includes two tables that have columns that
relate. When you click on a row in table 1 the corresponding row
becomes hightlighted, however, when the row is changed in the second
table its listeners attempt to respond by changing the selected row in
the first table so it corresponds to its row and it just keeps going on
and on and on.

Is there an easy way to fix this other than a variable that when
flagged prevents the listeners from working?