Add mouse event on JLabel?

Hi there!
Can i add a mouse event on JLabel? 'Coz i thought of when I'm double-clicking the label, i could capture the text on the label and open a new sub-frame that displays information of the captured text. Your replies would be appreciated! Thanks ;)

Why don't you just add a MouseListener to you label and wait for the user to click it. Shouldn't be that hard to accomplish.
JLabel myLabel = new JLabel("some text");
myLabel.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
    if (e.getClickCount() > 1) {
      // user double-clicked the label
    } else {
      // user single-clicked it
});cheers,
kelysar

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Well thanks for your suggestions. By now I'm trying to write a TableCellEditor. I think if I can return a component like the rendered compononent of each cell with the method getTableCellEditorComponent I have access to do whatever I want. Here is my TableCellEditor class:
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Minor error, but now fixed.

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