Arrow for direction, Shift for run

Is there way to have 2 keys being pressed at the same time and be able to have the prior action along with it?

I know that if you press down both keys at the same time, the effect will occur.

But I want to be able to walk a direction for an amount of time, then press and hold down the Shift key and have the character start running.

Any help?

KeyEvent has an isShiftDown() method.

does that help?

Couldn't you add an action for Detect_Initial_Press_Only for the Shift key that increases your speed and then On_Key_Release decrese the speed back to a walking speed? OR

While Shift.isPressed() speed = RUN_SPEED otherwise speed = WALK_SPEED

I would try one of those as a work around, I have never actually tried to detect multiple keys being pressed at once and have them both firing off actions. I'm sure it's possible though, fighting games seem to be all about multi-button mashing. Let us know if you can't get anything working and I'll try and play with some code to experiment.