its a system dependent function, like the System.out.print for printing. it seems, for some reason i couldnt put my finger on when i was learnign java, that keyboard input in java would be some weird thing, but its actually pretty simple.

basically you make a bufferedReader object that takes System.in as its source. a great website explaining it is here:

http://www.csupomona.edu/~cs/labs/help_pages/docs/java/Keyboard_Input.htm

hope that helps.
justo

really not that hard. and let me correct myself. bufferedReader takes a Reader as an argument. you are simply turning System.in into a Reader and feeding it to the bufferedReader. its that easy. the beauty of it is, of course, is that you can also make Readers out of everything from files to Strings.

and welcome to java! my college forced me into it too. i dragged my feet all the way, but i love it now (lets avoid any kind of language debate though). if youre just starting (especially if you want to get a headstart on everyone like you seem to) i highly highly suggest O'Reilly's "Learning Java." i still use it as reference. your new best friend will become

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/search.html

which has all the java docs, if you dont already have them on your comp, indexed and searchable.

and if youre interested in graphics, head on over to Ken Perlin's webpage, where he does a lot of his current research side projects in pure java 1.1 applets.

http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/

he usually posts his source code, including double buffered applet frameworks, for his classes, but many of them are free to use if you keep the attribution and you do something original with them!

ok, went a little overboard, but i hope all that helps.
justo

[edited by - justo on August 13, 2003 7:45:12 PM]

//simple method to grab input from the keyboard	  public static String inputStr(String s) 	  {		  String aLine = "";		  BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));		  System.out.print(s);		   		  try 		  {			  aLine = input.readLine();		  }				  catch (Exception e) 		  {			  e.printStackTrace();		  }				  return aLine;	  }

quote:Original post by KurtCPP
howdy.
since im gonna have to learn java at university next year, i decided to begin right now, but i havent been able to find anywhere how i could perform a input-reading from the keyboard.though that looked so simple that I thought it would have been the first thing i would have found.can someone tell me why there''s no doc. about this??

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If you mean console IO that can be done in a myriad of ways. Checkout <a href="http://java.sun.com/tutorial/">this</a> for a start. If you mean actual key-press based input then just make a JPane and implement your own handlers for key press events.