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

An easier approach is to just use a JButton since it already supports this functionality by using an ActionListener.

You can make the JButton look like a JLabel by using:

button.setBorderPainted( false );

This approach is for when you want to handle a mouseClick, since an ActionEvent is guaranteed to be generated, whereas as mouseClicked event when using a MouseListener may not be generated in all situations, which can confuse the user.