The KeyboardAnimation2 applet provides a generic framework for applets
both display an animation and respond to keyboard events. The animation
runs only when the applet has the keyboard focus and can respond to
key presses. The appearance of the applet changes, depending on whether
it has the keyboard focus. Note that each time a new frame of the
animation is to be displayed, it is drawn completely from scratch.
When the applet has the keyboard focus, a cyan border is drawn around
it. When it does not have the keyboard focus, the border is in
the applet’s background color and a message “Click to activate” is
displayed in the applet’s foreground color and font.
This class would be appropriate, for example, as a basis for a typical
arcade game, such as Space Invaders. (Except that the performance
might not be good on a slow machine.)
To use this framework, define a subclass of KeyboardAnimationApplet2 and
override the drawFrame() method. This method is responsible for drawing
one frame of the animation. If you need to some initialization at the
time the applet is created, override the doInitialization() method.
This method is called once when the applet is created. You should
not override the standard applet methods init(), start(), and stop()
unless you call the inherited versions from this class.
In this class, the applet is already set up to “listen” for keyboard
events. To make your applet respond to keyboard events, you should
override one or more of the methods keyPressed(), keyReleased(),
and keyTyped(). The applet also listens for MouseEvents, and you
can override the mouse handling events if you want. But if you do
override mousePressed(), be sure to call super.mousePressed() which
will request the input focus.
To respond to key presses, you should have some instance variables
that affect the image drawn. Change these variables in the keyPressed,
keyReleased, or keyTyped methods.
(Alternatively, instead of defining a subclass, you could copy this
file, change its name and the name of the class, and edit it.)
When this file is compiled, two class files are produced:
KeyboardAnimationApplet2.class and KeyboardAnimationApplet2$1.class.
Both class files are necessary to use the applet.
David Eck
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Geneva, NY 14456
eck@hws.edu
May 20, 2002
NOTE: This program requires Java 1.2 or higher. It is based on an older
program, KeyboardAnimationApplet.java, which has essentially the same
functionality but which worked with Java 1.1.
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import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class KeyboardAnimationApplet2 extends JApplet
implements ActionListener, KeyListener, FocusListener, MouseListener {
protected void doInitialization(int width, int height) {
// This routine is called once when the applet is first created.
// You can override it to do initialization of your instance
// variables. It's also a good place to call setFrameCount()
// and setMillisecondsPerFrame(), if you want to customize these
// values. The parameters tell the size of the drawing area
// at the time the applet is created.
}
protected void drawFrame(Graphics g, int width, int height) {
// This routine should be overridden in any subclass of KeyboardAnimationApplet.
// It is responsible for drawing one frame of the animation. The frame
// is drawn to the graphics context g. The parameters width and height
// give the size of the drawing area. drawFrame() should begin by
// filling the drawing area with a background color (as is done in this
// version of drawFrame). It should then draw the contents of the
// frame. The routine can call getFrameNumber() to determine which frame
// it is supposed to draw. It can call getElapsedTime() to find out
// how long the animation has been running, in milliseconds.
// Note that this routine should not take a long time to execute!
// As an example, the elapsed number of seconds and the frame number
// are output.
g.setColor(Color.lightGray);
g.fillRect(0,0,width,height);
g.setColor(Color.black);
g.drawString("Elapsed Time: " + (getElapsedTime()/1000),10,20);
g.drawString("Frame Number: " + (getFrameNumber()),10,35);
}
public void keyTyped(KeyEvent evt) {
// Method to respond when the user types a character. Use
// char key = evt.getKeyChar() to find out which character
// was typed. Note that this method is part of the
// KeyListener interface.
}
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent evt) {
// Method to respond to key presses. Use int code = evt.getKeyCode() to
// get a code number for the key pressed. The value of this code
// is given by constants in the KeyEvent class such as KeyEvent.VK_LEFT
// for the left arrow key and KeyEvent.VK_X for the "X" key. Override this
// method if you want to respond when the user presses special keys like
// the arrow keys. Note that this routine is part of the KeyListener
// interface
}
public void keyReleased(KeyEvent evt) {
// Method to respond when the user releases a key. Use evt.getKeyCode()
// to get the code number of the key that was released. Override this
// method if you want to respond when the user releases a key. This method
// is part of the KeyListener interface.
}
public int getFrameNumber() {
// Get the current frame number. The frame number will be incremented
// each time a new frame is to be drawn. The first frame number is 0.
// (If frameCount is greater than zero, and if frameNumber is greater than
// or equal to frameCount, then frameNumber returns to 0.) For a keyboard
// applet, you are not too likely to need frame numbers, actually.
return frameNumber;
}
public void setFrameNumber(int frameNumber) {
// Set the current frame number. This is the value returned by getFrameNumber().
if (frameNumber 0, frame number loops from
// frameNumber-1 back to 0.
private int millisecondsPerFrame = 40; // Approximate time between frames.
private long startTime; // Time since animation was started or restarted.
private long oldElapsedTime; // Holds time the animation had been running before
// it was most recently restarted.
private long elapsedTime; // Time animation has been running. This is set
// just before each frame is drawn.
private Timer timer; // The timer that drives the animation.
private JPanel frame; // Where the frames are drawn. This panel fills the applet.
private boolean focussed = false; // set to true when the applet has the keyboard focus
Color focusBorderColor = Color.cyan; // Color of border when applet has the focus.
public KeyboardAnimationApplet2() { // Constructor
frame = new JPanel() {
public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
int width = getSize().width;
int height = getSize().height;
drawFrame(g,width,height);
if (focussed) // Draw a 3-pixel border. If the applet has the
g.setColor(focusBorderColor); // focus, draw it in focusBorderColor; otherwise,
else // draw it in the background color.
g.setColor(KeyboardAnimationApplet2.this.getBackground());
g.drawRect(0,0,width-1,height-1);
g.drawRect(1,1,width-3,height-3);
g.drawRect(2,2,width-5,height-5);
if (!focussed) { // If the applet does not have the focus,
// print a message for the user.
g.setColor(KeyboardAnimationApplet2.this.getForeground());
g.drawString("Click to activate",10,height-12);
}
}
};
setContentPane(frame);
setBackground(Color.gray); // Color used for border when applet doesn't have focus.
setForeground(Color.red);
frame.setFont(new Font("SanSerif",Font.BOLD,14));
frame.addFocusListener(this);
frame.addKeyListener(this);
addMouseListener(this);
}
public void init() {
// Just call do initialization. (This is in init() instead of in
// the constructor since the size of the applet is not known in the
// constructor.)
doInitialization(getSize().width, getSize().height);
}
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
// Called by the timer when it's time to draw a new frame.
frameNumber++;
if (frameCount > 0 && frameNumber >= frameCount)
frameNumber = 0;
elapsedTime = oldElapsedTime + (System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime);
frame.repaint();
}
private void startAnimation() {
// Start or restart the animation, but only if the applet has focus.
if (focussed) {
if (timer == null) {
timer = new Timer(millisecondsPerFrame, this);
timer.start();
}
else
timer.restart();
startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
}
}
private void stopAnimation() {
// Start the animation, if it's running, i.e. if the applet has focus.
if (focussed) {
oldElapsedTime += (System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime);
elapsedTime = oldElapsedTime;
frame.repaint();
timer.stop();
}
}
public void start() {
// Called by the system when the applet is first started
// or restarted after being stopped. (Probably this has
// no effect, since we shouldn't get forcus events before
// the applet is started.)
startAnimation();
}
public void stop() {
// Called by the system to suspend the applet.
stopAnimation();
}
public void focusGained(FocusEvent evt) {
// The applet now has the input focus. Set focussed = true
// start the animation.
focussed = true;
startAnimation();
}
public void focusLost(FocusEvent evt) {
// The applet has lost the input focus. Set focussed = false
// and stop the animation.
stopAnimation();
focussed = false;
}
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent evt) {
// Request the input focus when the user clicks on
// the applet.
frame.requestFocus();
}
public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent evt) { } // Required by the
public void mouseExited(MouseEvent evt) { } // MouseListener
public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent evt) { } // interface.
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent evt) { }
} // end class KeyboardAnimationApplet2
