Removing MouseListener() from a JLabel

Question

I added a MouseListener to a JLabel . Now if I want to disable this MouseListener associated with the JLabel , when the label is clicked once, how can I do it.

I know there is a big way to set a boolean or int variable when the label is clicked and then call a method and remove MouseListener there, but I want to learn a compact and easy way. Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

In your mouse listener:

public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent event) {
    // Do stuff...
    ((Component) event.getSource()).removeMouseListener(this);
}

Answer 2

What's wrong with label.removeMouseListener(listener) ? It works just fine. If you want to create listener that removes itself call label.removeMouseListener(this)