Multiple Event Handling

[john price]

How do you handle multiple events at the same time? For example, I have a game. I want to push the right arrow along with the up key. How would I be able to receive the input at the same time?

Looks something like this :

case KeyEvent.VK_UP : 
	if (!inTheAir) {
	moveUp.start(); //Jumps up in the air
	repaint();
	}
	break;
	case KeyEvent.VK_LEFT : 
	if (!moving) {
	moveLeft.start(); //Moves to the left
	repaint();
	}
	break;
	case KeyEvent.VK_RIGHT :
	if (!moving) {
	moveRight.start(); //Moves to the right
	repaint();
	}
	break;

Thanks,
John Price

[john price]

I figured it out thanks. What I did to "fix" the problem was to not stop the thread until the keyReleased method was set off by that key (an additional switch statement in my case with "VK_RIGHT" and "VK_LEFT")

Thanks,
John Price

EDIT :

public void keyReleased(KeyEvent x) {
	switch (x.getKeyCode()) {
	case KeyEvent.VK_RIGHT : moveRight.stop(); times2 = 0; moving = false; break;
	case KeyEvent.VK_LEFT : moveLeft.stop(); times2 = 0; moving = false; break;
	}
	}

[Rob Spoor]

Usually something like this is the approach to go for. On key pressed you store the keys somewhere, and on key released you remove them from the storage. All keys in the storage are then the currently pressed keys.

However, moving = false may be premature. What if I still have UP pressed? Aren't I then still moving?

[john price]

For pressing up, it activates another variable, left and right are on the "moving" variable and up is on a separate variable.

John Price