hello again, havin a bitchin time with this popup menu I'm trying to
create.  I'm a learn by doing type of person and I havent found any
good examples of how to implement a pop-up menu.  The main class in the
application extends a JPanel.  I searched google and found the
following snippet of code and inserted it into my constructor:

           final JPopupMenu menu = new JPopupMenu();
   // Create and add a menu item
   JMenuItem item = new JMenuItem("Item Label");
   item.addActionListener(this);
   menu.add(item);

   // Set the component to show the popup menu
   this.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
       public void mousePressed(MouseEvent evt) {
           if (evt.isPopupTrigger()) {
               menu.show(evt.getComponent(), evt.getX(), evt.getY());
           }
       }
       public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent evt) {
           if (evt.isPopupTrigger()) {
               menu.show(evt.getComponent(), evt.getX(), evt.getY());
           }
       }
   });

however, this code does nothing when I run the application.  Currently,
my actionPerformed method is empty, I dont know if I have to add
anything to this method to get the popup to run or not.  I'll give it a
try, but any help would be appreciated.