Two small questions: keypressed event and regexp

From:
"Claus K." <clauskick@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
6 May 2006 08:37:27 -0700
Message-ID:
<1146929846.996810.150670@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
Hello everyone,

just a small thing which has been bugging me for some time now.

I have created a small GUI which serves as a Mudclient (works alright),
but there is a problem with this:

#code snippet:
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent arg0)
    {
....
        else if (arg0.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_NUMPAD1)
        {
            appletwindow.out.println("look");
            appletwindow.output.append("look" + "\n");
            appletwindow.addHistoryIndex("look");
            appletwindow.input.setText("look");
}
....

out is an Stream sending data to the server,
output is a textarea containing what is sent to and from the server,
history is like a unix shell command history, i.e. with arrow-up and
arrow-down keys, you can navigate between your last commands which will
appear in input, which is a textfield.

Now, what is happening if you press numpad-1 is that the command "look"
is sent over the stream, the command appears in the output textarea,
also in the history, but for the input-textfield, there is the number
"1" printed with the string "look" printed afterwards, of which I only
want the string "look" to appear, not the actual number which has been
pressed.

How can I manage to do that?

My second question is concerning regexps:

I have this coming over the stream:



and I have to filter it out, but all my expressions dont seem to catch
it.
I have tried to go for (for example)

Pattern color_pattern2 = Pattern.compile("\\[[0-9]+.[0-9]{2}[m]");

or a variation of

Pattern color_pattern =
Pattern.compile("\u001B"+"\\u005B"+"[0-9]+?"+"[m]");

which filters out most of those weird color codes (which they are), but
they fail to catch what I have described above. I think that is due to
the comma in there, but however I change the above, I just dont catch
it.

Easiest Solution would be to expand color_pattern I think, but Java
regexp works so differently from what I know from sed or perl, that I
am very frustrated by now.

Could someone please shed some light on those two - as I perceive them
- minor issues?

I would be very grateful,

Claus

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