Key Codes....

[Sir Sapo]

Hello ,

I hae been programming for a couple months now and I have been using the depracated way to get Key inputs..
ie. public boolean keyDown(Event e , int key)... and they have worked, up till now. For an assignment at school I have to use the public void keyPressed(KeyEvent event) method to get KeyBoard inputs. My question was, if I use event.getKeyCode() can I compare that directly to key Codes i know already? If I use event.getKeyCode() and I pressed te spacebar , will it give me an integer of 32 like the depracated one? If not, does anyone know where I can find a list of all the keys on a keyboard and their codes?

Thanks in Advance.

[cjard]

look more closely at the KeyEvent API

you will see things like:

KeyEvent.VK_SPACE

as a public final constant integer, so you dont compare literal values..

if(evt.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_SPACE){
//they pressed the space bar
}

[cjard]

as always in things like this, the api is your best option:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/ap.../KeyEvent.html

[Sir Sapo]

Thank You cjard , I hadn't even thought of looking in the API.

[cjard]

how do you program, without using the API?

[Sir Sapo]

Shh... its a secret,

Sorry bout that , I meant the Documentation not the API itself.

[Phaelax]

Without looking at the API, I'd never get anything done.