Keycode display program not working

Question

Hey, I wrote this code that detects the keycodes then displays them into the status bar and in the applet window, This worked fine. I then added an if statement so it would display the message "ESC KEY" if the Esc key was pressed I can't find any reason why i'ts not working i've tried putting the if statement in many different places in the program but it still won't work. I am definately saving it.
Can anyone help?
<CODE>
// Luke Mildenhall-Ward
// KeyCode Display program
// December 2002
// Imports
import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class Pong3 extends Applet implements Runnable, KeyListener
// Variable declaring
public String message;
public int keyCode;
public Thread pongt = null;
// Initialisation
public void init()
addKeyListener(this);
pongt = new Thread(this);
pongt.start();
// Key Listening
public void keyTyped(KeyEvent key) {}
public void keyReleased(KeyEvent key) {}
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent key)
try
keyCode = key.getKeyCode();
// THIS IS THE (if) PART THAT I'VE RECENTLY ADDED:
if (keyCode == 27) {
message = "ESC KEY";
else {
message = "Key = " + keyCode;
catch (Exception ex) {}
// Start
public void start()
if (pongt == null)
pongt = new Thread(this,"pongt");
pongt.start();
// Stop
public void stop()
pongt = null;
// Run
public void run()
Thread thisThread = Thread.currentThread();
while (pongt == thisThread)
// Status bar
showStatus(message);
try {Thread.sleep(20);}
catch (InterruptedException e){}
// Issuing repaint
repaint();
// Painting
public void paint (Graphics g)
g.drawString(message, 100, 100);
</CODE>

Answer 1

Note that you can use the getKeyText() method to get the 'name' of the key automatically.     
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e)
          System.out.println("PRESSED: " + e.getKeyText(e.getKeyCode()) + "\n");
     }