Problems with KeyListener

[Poincare]

I have no idea where this would go. I'm not a complete newbie. I'm not expert either. I can do most types of projects (that don't involve networking) by looking up stuff. Now, I'm stuck. I'm trying to write a simple game for my own entertainment. A part of the game is to have a circle move around with the arrow keys. Here's my code:

import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.awt.event.KeyListener;
public class AppletBasics extends Applet implements Runnable, KeyListener {
	int xVal=0;
	int yVal=540;
	boolean moveRight = false;
	boolean moveLeft = false;
	
	public void start ()
	{

	      // define a new thread
	      Thread th = new Thread (this);
	      // start this thread
	      th.start ();

	} 
	public void run ()
	{

	      // lower ThreadPriority
	      Thread.currentThread().setPriority(Thread.MIN_PRIORITY);

	      // run a long while (true) this means in our case "always"
	      while (true)
	      {
	            // repaint the applet
	            repaint();

	            try
	            {
	                   //Stop thread for 20 milliseconds
	                Thread.sleep (10);
	            }
	            catch (InterruptedException ex)
	            {
	                  // do nothing
	            }

	            //set ThreadPriority to maximum value
	            Thread.currentThread().setPriority(Thread.MAX_PRIORITY);
	      } 

        } 
	public void init() {
		setBackground(Color.black); 
		addKeyListener( this );

	}
	public void paint (Graphics g, KeyEvent e) {
		
		setSize(600,600);
		g.setColor(Color.blue);
		
		if(moveLeft ==true & xVal>10) {
			g.fillOval(xVal--, yVal, 50, 50);
		}	
		if(moveRight==true & xVal<840) {
			g.fillOval(xVal++, yVal, 50, 50);
		}
		
	}
	@Override
	public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {
		if(e.getKeyCode()== e.VK_LEFT) {
			moveLeft = true;
			
		}
		
		if(e.getKeyCode()== e.VK_RIGHT) {
			moveRight=true;
		}
	}
	@Override
	public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		
	}
	@Override
	public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e) {
		

	}
	public static void main(String[] args) {
	

	}
	
}

But, all that shows up on the screen is a black background and nothing else. Please help!

[Fubarable]

Mr. Poincare, please do not cross-post the same question on multiple fora. Imagine you are a volunteer spending free time to consider someone's problem, work out a code solution and post it, only to find out that the question had already been answered in a cross-post hours previously, and so that in effect you have just wasted your time. For this reason, to avoid frustration, and wasting time many here and elsewhere will refuse to answer a cross-posted question or help a habitual cross-poster.

[Poincare]

are you talking about the post in sun's java forums? If you are, I'm really sorry. I won't do that again. :(

[Fubarable]

Yes, the Sun post. And I agree with Cotton: change from AWT to Swing. It's much more robust and flexible.

[Poincare]

I'll try that. But, just for my knowledge, what is the problem?

[Fubarable]

One big problem is as Cotton points out: paint's method signature doesn't take two parameters. Your paint method must match that of Container's exactly.

The other you seem to have some sort of futile loop in your code. But otherwise I'm not sure as I don't code in AWT but rather in Swing.

[Poincare]

Can you please help me with using swing? I haven't used swing or listeners or GUI in a a little more than 8 months.

[Fubarable]

Sure. I recommend that you start where I did. Here