How to stop stickey keys

Question

How can I stop stickey keys in my KeyListener (acutally I am implementing a keyAdapter but same difference)? For example. if I hold down the 1 button I don't want it to be 1111111111111111111111 ... but instead just 1. Ideas?
TIA,
Doopsterus

Answer 1

No, I cannot do that b/c no matter if you just do code in the keyReleased method it still puts the character in the JTextField. Soooo... you have to do something like this... "How to remove stickey keys"
class MyKeyListener extends KeyAdapter(){
  private boolean keyPressed = false;
  private int lastKeyPressed;
  public void keyReleased(KeyEvent evt) {
     keyPressed = false;
     //place other code here if need be
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent evt) {
    JTextField txt = (JTextField) evt.getSource();
    if (txt.getText().equals("")) {  //keep from throwing exception
      return;
    if (keyPressed) {
      if (evt.getKeyCode() == lastKeyPressed) {   //if key is held down only allow one char to be written
        txt.setText(txt.getText().substring(0, txt.getText().length() - 1));
    lastKeyPressed = evt.getKeyCode();  //set new key pressed
    keyPressed = true;
  }