Help with an Action

I have been trying to figure this out for a while now,
What I want to be able to do is When I click a key on my keyboard, For example F5, It starts or stops a function depending on a boolean, but I can't figure out how to do this.
Thanks for help.

I am using Swing, And that is why you should be posting Swing related questions in the Swing forum, so we don't waste time guessing what you are talking about.
But there is no need to repost this time because you have the answer from the tutorial and there are plenty of examples that you can search for in the Swing forum.

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