java swing action event after two jbuttons are clicked

Question

I am trying to print "Hello" only when the jButton2 is clicked after the jButton1 and print "Bye" only when any other jButtons are clicked after jButton1. At the moment, the following code does not print anything.

public void MouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent e){
   if (e.getSource() == jButton1) {
        if (e.getSource() == jButton2) {
            System.out.println ("Hello");
        } else {
            System.out.println ("Bye");
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

This code has two problems.

1. Method from parent class is not being overridden. MouseClicked should be mouseClicked (first letter in small case) as in parent (super) class so that it is overridden and mouse event is captured.
2. There is no point in using nested if-else statements as this method would be called on every click and state of any previous clicks on other buttons is not saved.

This code will work for you.

boolean button1ClickedLast = false;

public void mouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent e){
    if (e.getSource() == jButton1) {
        button1ClickedLast = true;
        System.out.println ("Bye");
    }
    else  if (e.getSource() == jButton2) {
        if(button1ClickedLast) {   
            System.out.println ("Hello");
        }
        else{
            // do nothing or something if you want
        }

    }
    else {
        button1ClickedLast = false; // to change status to false in case any other button is clicked last
    }

}