JLabel click event

Question

If you have two JLabels in a JFrame both with the same MouseListener click event added to them, how can you tell which JLabel was clicked without creating a second actionlistener?

Note: both labels have the same text written on them so that cannot be used to tell them apart.

Answer 1

This will get you a reference to the component ...

public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) 
{
JComponent reference = e.getComponent();
}

For a more complete description look at the Swing Tutorial on MouseListeners

Answer 2

Just make the two JLabels fields and then check the source of the MouseEvent:

if (e.getSource() == firstLabel) {
  ...
} else if (e.getSource() == secondLabel) {
  ...
}