Question

![enter image description here][1]I have created a java swing application which detects label clicks and searches the linked list for objects that match the label name.

Now I have already implemented this assuming only one label is clicked.

However let us say if a user clicks 5 labels at a time I want to capture all 5 simultaneously in order to do a comparison.

Now I would like to clarify one more thing that the labels are generated dynamically based on the number of records in the linked list.For example if the linked list has only 5 author fields,then only 5 labels are created.

Answer 1

Probably this is what you are looking for…

final List<String> labelNames = new ArrayList<String>();
MouseListener listener = new MouseAdapter() {
  @Override
  public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
    if (e.getSource() instanceof JLabel){
      labelNames.add(((JLabel) e.getSource()).getText());
    }
  }
};
JLabel label1 = new JLabel();
label1.addMouseListener(listener);
JLabel label2 = new JLabel();
label1.addMouseListener(listener);
JLabel label3 = new JLabel();
label1.addMouseListener(listener);