waiting for a mouse click

[tommyny04]

Really need help with this one. I'm writing a program to simulate a Risk game and I need to write a method to make two countries neighbors, which would be done by adding each the neighbor country to each country's neighbor's array. To do this, I will need to click on the country, click on the map and then click on the other country. My method gets the country's name but how do I tell it to wait for a mouse click before trying to get the second country's name???? I've tried everything but to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.

[CODE=java]public void addNeighbor(Cou ntry country) {

boolean exists, click;

Country tempCountry;
tempCountry = searchCountry(r ed, green, blue);

if (country == tempCountry){
JOptionPane.sho wMessageDialog( null, "Error: Territories are the same. Please try again");
}
else {
exists = country.borderE xists(tempCount ry);
if (exists){
JOptionPane.sho wMessageDialog( null, "Error: Territories are already borders.");
}
else {
country.addBord erArray(tempCou ntry);
tempCountry.add BorderArray(cou ntry);
JOptionPane.sho wMessageDialog( null, "Border successfull added.");
}

}


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[Laharl]

I believe you need a MouseListener, though I've never actually used one, I've seen them used in simulations of games like Concentration.

[eeriehunk]

Really need help with this one. I'm writing a program to simulate a Risk game and I need to write a method to make two countries neighbors, which would be done by adding each the neighbor country to each country's neighbor's array. To do this, I will need to click on the country, click on the map and then click on the other country. My method gets the country's name but how do I tell it to wait for a mouse click before trying to get the second country's name???? I've tried everything but to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.

[CODE=java]public void addNeighbor(Cou ntry country) {

boolean exists, click;

Country tempCountry;
tempCountry = searchCountry(r ed, green, blue);

if (country == tempCountry){
JOptionPane.sho wMessageDialog( null, "Error: Territories are the same. Please try again");
}
else {
exists = country.borderE xists(tempCount ry);
if (exists){
JOptionPane.sho wMessageDialog( null, "Error: Territories are already borders.");
}
else {
country.addBord erArray(tempCou ntry);
tempCountry.add BorderArray(cou ntry);
JOptionPane.sho wMessageDialog( null, "Border successfull added.");
}

}


}[/CODE]

To use an action listener you have to instantiate a button class (not just a button, you can use many others like check box or radio button or more). Check this sample code of a JButton class click me