Thread: GridLayout/JButton question

Hey everyone. I'm trying to create a MouseListener event so that when a Tile is clicked on my grid it will black out all tiles that are of the same color as the one I clicked, except the one I clicked.

A little background on what my code does so far: When I run the program it creates a GameBoard of JButton's and then colors them in using my colorTiles() method. After that it's supposed to shuffle them up and distribute them randomly across the board but I haven't gotten that far yet.

here is my code so far

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Container;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseListener;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Random;
 
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFileChooser;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JMenu;
import javax.swing.JMenuBar;
import javax.swing.JMenuItem;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
 
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class GameBoard extends JFrame{
	private int numRows = 16, numCols = 16;
	Tile[][] myTiles;
	Tile[] t = new Tile[256];
	JButton board;
	private MyEventHandler eh = new MyEventHandler();
 
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		new GameBoard();
	}
 
	public GameBoard() {
		setSize(800,800);
 
		Container c = getContentPane();
		c.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
 
		setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		setTitle("Random Colors");
 
		JButton tilePanel = buildTiles();
		c.add(tilePanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
 
		setResizable(false);
		setVisible(true);
	}
 
	private JButton buildTiles() {
		board = new JButton();
		board.setBackground(Color.BLACK);
		board.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(800, 800));
		board.setLayout(new GridLayout(numRows, numCols));
		colorTiles();
 
		return board;
	}
 
	public void colorTiles() {
		for(int i = 0; i < t.length; i++){
			if(i < 39){
				t[i] = new Tile(Color.YELLOW);
				t[i].setColor();
				board.add(t[i]);
			}
			else if(i >= 39 && i < 85){
				t[i] = new Tile(Color.RED);
				t[i].setColor();
				board.add(t[i]);
			}
			else if(i >= 57 && i < 119){
				t[i] = new Tile(Color.BLUE);
				t[i].setColor();
				board.add(t[i]);
			}
			else if(i >= 119 && i < 171){
				t[i] = new Tile(Color.GREEN);
				t[i].setColor();
				board.add(t[i]);
			}
			else if(i >=171 && i < 212){
				t[i] = new Tile(Color.MAGENTA);
				t[i].setColor();
				board.add(t[i]);
			}
			else if(i >= 212 && i < 256){
				t[i] = new Tile(Color.CYAN);
				t[i].setColor();
				board.add(t[i]);
			}
		}
	}
 
	public void shuffle() {
		Collections.shuffle(Arrays.asList(t));
	}
 
 
	private class MyEventHandler implements MouseListener {
 
		@Override
		public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
		}
 
		@Override
		public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent arg0) {
			// TODO Auto-generated method stub
 
		}
 
		@Override
		public void mouseExited(MouseEvent arg0) {
			// TODO Auto-generated method stub
 
		}
 
		@Override
		public void mousePressed(MouseEvent arg0) {
			// TODO Auto-generated method stub
 
		}
 
		@Override
		public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent arg0) {
			// TODO Auto-generated method stub
 
		}
 
	}
 
}

import java.awt.Color;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Random;
import javax.swing.JButton;
 
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class Tile extends JButton{
	Color color;
	Tile[] colors = new Tile[256];
	Tile[][] myTiles;
 
	public Tile(Color c) {
		color = c;
	}
 
	public Tile() {
 
	}
 
	public void setColor() {
		for(int i = 0; i < colors.length; i++){
			setBackground(color);
			paintImmediately(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight());
		}
	}
}

I guess my question is, how would I go about doing this and where do I start? do I need to make a new method or can I write some code in the mouseClicked method and how do I give my tiles the ability to detect a mouse click?