Question

I was following a coding tutorial having to do with Key Events and all the code looks right, but for some reason there is an error that I can’t fix. Maybe all I need is another set of eyes to scan through it and spot my error. Here’s the code. There are 2 asterisks on either side of the line of code with the error. The error tells me that that a “;” (semicolon) is expected where the
“(” and “)” is…how does that even make sense ? I will also post a picture.

package com.Bench3.myGame;

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.KeyAdapter;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;

public class Keying extends JPanel{

public Rectangle character;

public int charW = 24;
public int charH = 36;

public boolean right = false;
public boolean left = false;

public Keying(Display f, Images i){
    character = new Rectangle(180, 180, charW, charH);

    f.addKeyListener(new KeyAdapter(){
        public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e){
            if(e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_D){
                right = true;
            }
            if(e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_A){
                left = true;
                }

            **public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e)**{
                if(e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_D){
                    right = false;
                }
                if(e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_A){
                    left = false;
                }
            }
        }
    });     
}
public void paintComponent(Graphics g){
    super.paintComponent(g);
    this.setBackground(Color.BLACK);
    g.setColor(Color.WHITE);
    g.fillRect(character.x, character.y, character.width, character.height);

    if(right){
        character.x += 1;
    }
    if(left){
        character.x -= 1;
    }
    repaint();
}

}

Answer 1

You forgot to close the curly braces of previous method (keyPressed()): –

public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e){
        if(e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_D){
            right = true;
        }
        if(e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_A){
            left = true;
            }
} // missing