Key events and key listeners

[elliotHenry]

Hello again folks. Having trouble with this one. I want to update my JTextArea when a key is presses. Here's a snippet of my code:

    private JTextField myText;

    public MyGui()
    {
        ad = new KeyWatcher();
        setFocusable(true);

        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        myText = new JTextField(20);
        myText.addKeyListener(ad);
  
		private class KeyWatcher extends KeyAdapter
    {
        @Override
        public void keyPressed(KeyEvent k)
        {
           {
            myText.setText(k.getKeyChar()+"");
            System.out.println(myText);
           }
        }
    }
}

Nothing happens when I run it. I want it to print out the value of the key(s) I've pressed. I've gone over the API about a million times but can't see where I'm going wrong. Can you help?

Thanks in advance.

[JosAH]

You're not showing the relevant code, i.e. where do you add your JTextField to your JFrame?

kind regards,

Jos