Detecting if the player presses q or e

[meesterpickles]

Hello, I'm making a game in where the player switches through weapons with the q and e keys.
I have been able to tell if the player is pressing them in their capitalized state with this:

public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e) {
		
		if(e.getKeyChar() == KeyEvent.VK_Q)
		{
			dim--;
			if(dim<0)
			dim=2;

		}
		
		if(e.getKeyChar() == KeyEvent.VK_E)
		{
			dim++;
			if(dim>2)
			dim=0;
		}
		
	}

However I want to know if the player presses them capitalized or not.
Thanks! :D

[Norm]

To see what keys are being pressed, add a println to the keyPressed method to print out the event that is passed to the listener. You will see that most of the keys on the keyboard will pass an event to the listener. Press the keys that you are interested in tracking and see what is printed.
For keeping track of when a key is released, you will also need to look at the keyReleased method.

[meesterpickles]

I changed my code to:

if(e.getKeyChar() == 'q')
		{
			dim--;
			if(dim<0)
			dim=2;

		}
		
		if(e.getKeyChar() == 'e')
		{
			dim++;
			if(dim>2)
			dim=0;
		}

And moved it to keyPressed and it worked perfectly!
I was able to figure it out by println'ing getKeyChar like you said.
I feel sort of silly considering how simple it was :[

Thank you!

[zweibieren]

You might consider using a switch statement. It becomes more attractive as the number of options increases.

       switch(e.getKeyChar()) {
       case 'q': 
            dim--;
            if(dim<0)
                   dim=2;
            break;
       case 'e': 
            dim++;
            if(dim>2)
                   dim=0;
            break;
       }