JLabel mouse click on the icon or text

Question

When I click on JLabel , I want to understand if there was a click on the "Icon part" or “ Text part" JLabel so that various actions could be performed. Is there any reasonable way or just I need to solve it regarding the coordinates of the icon and text?

Answer 1

+1 to @aymeric's comment.

How about having two different JLabels

However, I understand why you can hesitate.

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My smart (: P) solution for this is to create your own abstract component that takes the icon and text as parameters for the constructor - by expanding the JPanel and adding 2 JLabel to the JPanel , each label has it on the MouseAdapter , which calls the abstract method xxxClicked() (thus, any implementing class must override these methods).

Here is an example I made:

 import java.awt.FlowLayout; import java.awt.Image; import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter; import java.awt.event.MouseEvent; import java.net.URL; import javax.imageio.ImageIO; import javax.swing.ImageIcon; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JLabel; import javax.swing.JPanel; import javax.swing.SwingUtilities; public class Test { public static void main(String[] args) { SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { JFrame frame = new JFrame(); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); ImageIcon ii = null; try { //I dont remmend getScaledInstance just used it for speed of code writing ii = new ImageIcon(ImageIO.read(new URL("http://www.candonetworking.com/java.gif")).getScaledInstance(32, 32, Image.SCALE_SMOOTH)); } catch (Exception ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } MyLabel ml = new MyLabel(ii, "Something") { @Override void iconClicked() { System.out.println("Icon clicked"); } @Override void textClicked() { System.out.println("Text clicked"); } }; frame.add(ml); frame.pack(); frame.setVisible(true); } }); } } abstract class MyLabel extends JPanel { JLabel iconLabel; JLabel textLabel; MouseAdapter iconMA; MouseAdapter textMA; public MyLabel(ImageIcon icon, String text) { iconLabel = new JLabel(icon); textLabel = new JLabel(text); iconMA = new MouseAdapter() { @Override public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent me) { super.mouseClicked(me); iconClicked(); } }; textMA = new MouseAdapter() { @Override public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent me) { super.mouseClicked(me); textClicked(); } }; iconLabel.addMouseListener(iconMA); textLabel.addMouseListener(textMA); add(iconLabel); add(textLabel); } abstract void iconClicked(); abstract void textClicked(); public JLabel getIconLabel() { return iconLabel; } public JLabel getTextLabel() { return textLabel; } }