Rotating a Image with keylistener?

[dharav]

Hi,
As the title suggests, is there a method/way in java that can rotate a image by a certain degree(by using key listener). I am in need of such method because i have a drawImage() method with (image, intx, inty, image observer) which prints a image on the screen of a car from the top view. The car is able to move up down right and left. BUT i would like to rotate the car actively on the screen by the input of the left key.
Thx
Heres my code so far

import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.awt.event.KeyListener;

import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.Timer;

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Image;

public class startGame extends JPanel implements ActionListener,KeyListener
{
	Timer time = new Timer(5,this);
	int x=0,y=0,velX = 0,velY=0;
	Image car1;
	
	public static void main(String[] args) 
	{
		startGame game = new startGame();
		JFrame frame = new JFrame();
		frame.setTitle("NEED FOR SPEED");
		frame.setSize(800,800);
		frame.setVisible(true);
		frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		frame.add(game);
		

	}
	
	public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
	{
		
		super.paintComponent(g);
		Graphics2D ga = (Graphics2D) g;
		ImageIcon ii = new ImageIcon("car1.jpg");
		car1=ii.getImage();
		ga.drawImage(car1, x, y, null);
		time.start();
		
		
	}
	public startGame()
	{

		time.start();
		addKeyListener(this);
		setFocusable(true);
		setFocusTraversalKeysEnabled(false);
		repaint();
		
		
		
	}
	
	public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) 
	{
		if(x<0)
		{
			velX=0;
			x=0;
		}
		if(y<0)
		{
			velY=0;
			y=0;
		}
		if(x>800)
		{
			velX=0;
			x=800;
		}
		if(y>800)
		{
			velY=0;
			y=800;
		}
		x = x + velX;
		y = y + velY;
		repaint();
	}

	public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e)
	{
		
	}
	public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e)
	{
		velX=0;
		velY=0;
	}
	public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) 
	{
		int c = e.getKeyCode();
		
		if(c == KeyEvent.VK_LEFT)
		{
			velX = -1;
			velY = 0;
		}
		if(c == KeyEvent.VK_UP)
		{
			velX = 0;
			velY = -1;
		}
		if(c == KeyEvent.VK_RIGHT)
		{
			velX = 1;
			velY = 0;
		}
		if(c == KeyEvent.VK_DOWN)
		{
			velX = 0;
			velY = 1;
		}
	}
}

[DarrylBurke]

Don't conflate two issues. Reacting to keyboard input and drawing an image rotated are two disparate subjects. From your code, it appears that you don't have a problem with the former. For the latter, Graphics2D has a rotate(...) method, or you can use AffineTransform.

You might like to go through this Tutorial Trail: 2D Graphics (The Java™ Tutorials)

db