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.

public void addNeighbor(Country country) {
 
        boolean exists, click;
 
        Country tempCountry;
        tempCountry = searchCountry(red, green, blue);
 
        if (country == tempCountry){
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Error: Territories are the same. Please try again");
        }
        else {
            exists = country.borderExists(tempCountry);
            if (exists){
                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Error: Territories are already borders.");
            }
            else {
                country.addBorderArray(tempCountry);
                tempCountry.addBorderArray(country);
                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Border successfull added.");
            }
 
        }
 
 
    }

[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.

public void addNeighbor(Country country) {
 
        boolean exists, click;
 
        Country tempCountry;
        tempCountry = searchCountry(red, green, blue);
 
        if (country == tempCountry){
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Error: Territories are the same. Please try again");
        }
        else {
            exists = country.borderExists(tempCountry);
            if (exists){
                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Error: Territories are already borders.");
            }
            else {
                country.addBorderArray(tempCountry);
                tempCountry.addBorderArray(country);
                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Border successfull added.");
            }
 
        }
 
 
    }

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