Im trying to write a very simple program that allows you to control a sprite with arrow keys and move around the screen. From what I understand, to do this I need a keyPressed()
KeyListener
. I believe Im doing this correctly based on the Java Doc but its not returning the correct output when I press the designated key. Can someone please tell me what is wrong with my code, and if possible, provide a simple example of the usage of this class? Thanks!
(Note, code is unfinished)
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.awt.event.KeyListener;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.*;
public class Display extends JPanel implements ActionListener, KeyListener {
Display() {
// super();
loadImages();
initTimer();
this.addKeyListener(this);
}
BufferedImage sprite;
Timer timer;
int up = 0;
public void loadImages() {
File spriteImage = new File("Pacman_sprite.png");
try {
sprite = ImageIO.read(spriteImage);
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Sprite import failed");
}
}
public void initTimer() {
timer = new Timer(100, this);
timer.start();
this.addKeyListener(this);
}
@Override
public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e) {
}
@Override
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {
int key = e.getKeyCode();
System.out.println("Key press registered"); //does not print this?
if (key == KeyEvent.VK_UP) {
System.out.println("sucess"); // does not print this?
up++;
repaint();
}
}
@Override
public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e) {
System.out.println("release");
}
public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
super.paintComponent(g);
setBackground(Color.WHITE);
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;
g2d.drawImage(sprite, 500, 500 + up, null);
}
@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
repaint();
}
}
EDIT: May have found the answer here. I moved the key handling code to a new class called KeyHandler then added these two lines to the constructor:
addKeyListener(new KeyHandler());
setFocusable(true);
It now appears to be working just fine (sort of, at least it is detecting when the up key is hit. My graphics aren't.)