Canvas, KeyListener and name input

Question

Hello,
I'm currently working on a game project where the user will start at a menu. The menu is a Canvas connected to a KeyListener and the user selects options with the up and down arrow keys and confirms their selection with the Enter key. When the user selects one of the options, the next step I want to implement is having some sort of text area for inputting the user name, but from what I understand this is not possible with Canvases. So I thought of having some simple getKeyCode method returns but this will always make the outermost switch-case go to default. So, my question is how should I restructure this?
Since the other parts of the projects are also Canvases, I cannot just simply change to a JPanel and add TextAreas.
This is my current code:
int selected = 0; //The user's current option selected
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e)
     switch (e.getKeyCode())
          //Handle up and down arrow presses...
          //Handle enter
          case KeyEvent.VK_ENTER:
               switch (selected)
                    case (LOG_IN):
                         action = LOG_IN;
                         //Here I want the text input
                    break;
                    case (EXIT):
                         System.exit(0);
               break;
}

Answer 1

As I mentioned in the first post, we want to stick to using Cavases all the way, but I'll hear with my team if they will consider having frames for the menues instead.