Listening for any key to be pressed?

Question

I'm writing a small text-based program and when Task #1 finishes,
it prompts for the user to press any key.
If any key is pressed, the program proceeds to Task #2 and when it finishes the user needs to press any key again. And so on...
So how can I listen if any key has been pressed or not?
Can somebody give me some pointers to some examples dealing with this and which class I should look at?
Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

your class needs to implement KeyListener, and define 3 methods
keyPressed
keyTyped
and
keyReleased.
you will also need some counter to know when to do task 1, task 2 etc.
so it would look like:
public class Whatever extends Something implements KeyListener {
     private static int counter = 1;
     public static void main(String[] args) {
     public static void task1() {
          some code
          counter++;
     public static void task2() {
          some code
          counter++;
     public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e) {
          switch(counter) {
               case 1: task1(); break;
               case 2: task2(); break;
     public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {
     public void KeyReleased(KeyEvent e) {
}hope this helps!
Tom