John B. Matthews wrote:
In article <ddbc8$4959f55a$50db01d9$16296@news.hispeed.ch>,
Philipp Gressly <phi@gressly.ch> wrote:
I am programming a "moon-lander" and want to check every 100 ms if a
certain key is pressed. The keyboard events (key-pressed,
key-released and key-typed) are not helpful, because the operating
System (linux im my case) generates key-releases and key-presses at
its own (depending on the "key repeat speed").
Is there a command to satisfy the following interface easily?
public interface KeyState {
boolean isKeyDown(char keyCode);
}
I don't see a way to ignore spurious keyReleased() events except to
instruct the user to disable key repeat using the host's control
panel. It may be possible to do so programmatically using the Java
Desktop System's assistive technology:
<http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-7307>
It sounds like you already understand the obvious implementation:
Enumerate the keys of interest and map the state of each. In an
implementation of the KeyListener interface (or an extension of the
KeyAdapter class), handle keyPressed() keyReleased() events
accordingly: Mark a key as down on keyPressed(); mark a key as up on
keyReleased(). Return the corresponding state in isKeyDown().