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I am having an amazing amount of trouble sensing the keyboard.

After giving up on keyDown and keyUp changing a variable I stumbled onto
System.in.read() which while crude, would work for me.  However, the
best I can do is get the program to hang.

I have two "modules."  The compiler didn't mind a throw statement in the
first one:

> static public void main(String[] args)
>   throws java.io.IOException {


However, I couldn't make it happy in the second one which is where I am
using System.in.read():

> void buttonBar_actionPerfromed(ActionEvent e)
>   {

within:

> public class Frame1 extends DecoratedFrame
>   {


The code that doesn't work--even after pressing Return--is:

> try {
>       textIn = System.in.read();
>     }

> catch {
>         System.out.println("Darn!");
>       }


TIA for any hints.