Can I add an action listener to a JLabel?

Question

I want to replace a JButton by a JLabel and I want my code to perform some action when the JLabel is clicked.

When I had the JButton I used action listener to handle cli

Answer 1

Sure. JLabels have a method which allow you to attach a MouseListener object. The MouseListener object requires a MouseAdapter() object. MouseAdapter is an abstract class which ideally serves as an Adapter for for creating on the fly listeners to do things.

JLabel lb = new JLabel(An image icon, if you'd like.);

//now lets attach a listener to your JLabel
lb.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() 
{
    @Override
    public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) 
    {
        //THIS CODE WILL RUN WHEN THE EVENT OF CLICKING IS RECEIVED.
        //example of something you could do below.
        new Random().ints().limit(60).forEach(System.out::println);
    }
});