Using KeyListener, as opposed to MouseListener

[t338327]

Hello. I have a program which I wrote as an example below:

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

import javax.swing.*;

public class Stuff extends JPanel implements KeyListener, MouseListener
{
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
	boolean isRunning = true;
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		JFrame frame = new JFrame("Hello");
		frame.add(new Stuff());
		frame.setSize(100, 100);
		frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		frame.setVisible(true);
	}

	public Stuff()
	{
		addKeyListener(this);
		addMouseListener(this);
		Thread thread = new Thread(new Runnable()
		{
			public void run()
			{
				while(isRunning)
				{
					try
					{
						Thread.sleep(5);
					} 
					catch (InterruptedException e)
					{
						e.printStackTrace();
					}
				}
			}
		});
	}
	public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e)
	{
		System.out.println("Key Pressed");
		if(e.getKeyChar() == 27)
		{
			isRunning = false;
			System.exit(1);
		}
	}
	public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e) {}
	public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e) {}
	public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e)
	{
		System.out.println("Mouse Clicked");
	}
	public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e) {}
	public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e) {}
	public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {}
	public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {}
}

Whenever I click in the window that pops up, It prints "Mouse Clicked"
However, whenever I type anything, including esc (Whose value is 27), nothing is printed, and the program doesn't exit either.
Why is this? I used MouseListener and KeyListener in the exact same way, so why doesn't KeyListener work?

[Norm]

Make sure the component with the key listener can get the focus and has the focus. The Component class has some methods that will do that. Look at the API doc for Component and Find "focus" to find the methods

[DarrylBurke]

Swing is designed to work with Key Bindings, which have three options for the focused state. Offhand, I can't think of a single situation where you would need to use a KeyListener in a Swing application.

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[DarrylBurke]

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