MouseListener doesn't appear to be working for me

Question

I need to preface this with my instructor doesn\'t let us use IDE\'s. We use TextPad. I want to click on this label and it then change from \"H\" to \"T\". Currently when I

Answer 1

Your JLabel implements MouseListener, but you also need to tell the JLabel to send events to itself. At the end of the constructor you'll need to say

addMouseListener(this);

This makes more sense if you remember that you can make any class into a MouseListener, and you'd have to connect your listener to your JLabel. The fact that the JLabel is its own listener doesn't absolve you of this responsibility.

Answer 2

That's because you need to add the mouse listener to your JLabel. In your constructor add:

addMouseListener(this);

Answer 3

You never added the MouseListener to your label.

To do this, simply add the following code:

    addMouseListener(this);