Getting keyboard input.
807603Mar 2 2007 — edited Jan 30 2008Hello I am an amateur (first year university) Java programmer. Recently I have been playing around with some of the functions in Java and came across the Robot class which I'd like to do more with.
What I want to happen is something along these lines:
1. A Key is pressed, robot does function A
2. When Key is released robot stops doing function A
3. A different key is pressed, robot does Function B
4. When Key is released robot stops doing function B
I managed to get the robot class working only if I use it in the main method and make it do a few things.
I have done keyboard input before using KeyEvent and KeyListener, but the problem here is there is no actual gui or something for it to use as a component. Is there a way I can hook it on to the raw state of the keyboard or something?
If there isn't, then is there a different way to go about getting the state of the keyboard?