Keyboard input for a game in Java

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Published on 2010-04-23T21:56:04Z Indexed on 2010/04/23 22:23 UTC
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I'm writing a game in Java, right now it's Swing + JOGL - a JFrame with a GLCanvas.

I handle input using keyPressed etc. events (jframe.addKeyListener(...)) and it doesn't seem to work properly:

when I have 3+ keys down at the same time, they don't register properly
after the window loses, then regains focus, input stops working completely...

What am I doing wrong?

Is there a better way of handling keyboard input in Java?

(I'd rather not switch to another library, like LWJGL... unless I have no choice).

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