Could use help in ActionListener and ActionEvent

Question

I am trying to write a program for my Computer Science class that disables a JButton after it's clicked on 8 times. However, it disables right after I click on it once. I'm still not sure what I am doing wrong.

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

public class JFrameDisableButton extends JFrame
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        JFrameDisableButton window = new JFrameDisableButton();
        window.setVisible(true);
    }

    final int WIDTH = 150;
    final int HEIGHT = 150;
    private Font bigFont = new Font("Arial", Font.BOLD, 16);
    private JButton disableButton = new JButton("Disable");
    private Container pane = getContentPane();
    private JLabel annoyed;

    public JFrameDisableButton()
    {
        super("Disable Frame");
        setSize(WIDTH,HEIGHT);
        setLayout(new FlowLayout());
        pane.add(disableButton);
        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        DisableButtonListener disableListener = new DisableButtonListener();
        disableButton.addActionListener(disableListener);
    }

    private class DisableButtonListener implements ActionListener
    {
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent click)
        {
            if(actionPerformed(ActionEvent (click = 8)))
            {
                disableButton.setEnabled(false);
            }
            else
            {
                disableButton.setEnabled(true);
                annoyed = new JLabel("That's enough!");
                pane.add(annoyed);
                annoyed.setFont(bigFont);
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

Here I had modified your code a bit, please have a look, it disables the JButton. Though how to bring it back to Enabled state, for that, you need to either use another JButton, or some sort of another event to bring it back to enabled state. Simply use a private int counter = 0 variable, that will count the button counts till 8 and then disable the JButton.

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

public class JFrameDisableButton extends JFrame
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        /*
         * Do learn about Concurrency in Swing too,
         * to display GUI related updates on the EDT.
         */
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable()
        {
            @Override
            public void run()
            {
                JFrameDisableButton window = new JFrameDisableButton();
                window.setVisible(true);
            }
        });        
    }

    final int WIDTH = 150;
    final int HEIGHT = 150;
    private Font bigFont = new Font("Arial", Font.BOLD, 16);
    private JButton disableButton = new JButton("Disable");
    private Container pane = getContentPane();
    private JLabel annoyed;
    private int counter = 0;

    public JFrameDisableButton()
    {
        super("Disable Frame");

        setLayout(new FlowLayout());
        pane.add(disableButton);
        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
        DisableButtonListener disableListener = new DisableButtonListener();
        disableButton.addActionListener(disableListener);
        annoyed = new JLabel("Clicked : " + counter + " times.");
        annoyed.setFont(bigFont);
        pane.add(annoyed);
        /*
         * Always call pack()/setSize() methods, only
         * when you are done adding components to 
         * the parent Container. Once it had realized it 
         * components, so that it can calculate, it''s 
         * size in a better way.
         */
        pack();
    }

    private class DisableButtonListener implements ActionListener
    {
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent click)
        {
            counter++;
            if(counter == 8)
            {
                annoyed.setText("Clicked : " + counter + " times.");
                disableButton.setEnabled(false);
                counter = 0;
            }
            else
            {
                annoyed.setText("Clicked : " + counter + " times.");                                
            }
        }
    }
}