Keyboard Listener?

[Sportsdude11751]

Hey I was wondering if anyone could help me with keyboard listener. I have no idea how to use it but I want to know if the left arrow key is pushed and **** etc...can anyone help me or know of any links that explains it well?

[Phaelax]

Look up the KeyEvent class for the other constants.

        class MyKeyListener implements KeyListener
        {
            public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e)
            {
            }
            public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e)
            {
            }
            public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e)
            {
                if(e.getKeyCode() == VK_LEFT)
                {
                   //you pressed the left arrow key
                {
            }
        }
        MyComponent.addKeyListener(new MyKeyListener());

[bcgdlzo]

Does that enable you to press more than one key at the same time? I'm just trying a basic 2 player pong game, and I don't know how to allow more than one key to work at once.

[sjalle]

Yes, there are different combinations like shif+key, ctrl+key, ctrl+alt-key
etc. that you can detect using the SwingUtilities class methods on the key event.
However, keeping track of two or three char-keys that are pressed (almost)
simultaneously is messy, you must at least disable the char-repeat function; when
you get a keyPressed event then you shold process it but not do it again before you
have received a keyReleased event for the same key.