Problem with my keyReleased method in KeyListener

Question

Hey all, I heard this was the place for these kinds of questions.
OK so a bit ago I created my own class KeyEventListener that implements KeyListener.
I just recently got it to work and it does in fact get input from the keyboard.
private class KeyEventListener implements KeyListener
      boolean right=false;
      public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e)
         if(!right)
         System.out.println("Pressed");
         //right=true;
      public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e)
         //right=false;
         System.out.println("Released");
      }So anyway, for testing reasons I added those System.out.println().
Anyway, here is where I noticed the problem, when a key is held down, this is the output:
Pressed
Released
Pressed
Released
Pressed
Released
Pressed
Released
Pressed
Released
Pressed
Released
Pressed
ReleasedSo apparently when a key is held down the method keyPressed and keyReleased are called over and over again.
I would have expected the keyPressed method to be called multiple times but not the keyReleased to be called.
Which makes this quite the problem. I only want one thing to happen when the key is pressed and one thing to happen when the key is released.
So how can I do this, normally I would just use a boolean set to false when a key is pressed and then set back to true once it is released but since released is always called I can't do this.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
(PS: I am working in Ubuntu)

Answer 1

This is just the way it works in linux. You can check here for some thoughts on how to address it.