Thread: Image not responding to keyboard?

So as an elective, I took Game design in Java in my school and I have to make a really simple game for it. Basically, what I'm trying to do is get the bullets (titled as 'bullet) to shoot out from the character. This is what I have and I'm having trouble seeing what's wrong with it. Thanks in advanced!

Code is below, here's a link to the project file: http://mediafire.com/?q6ysy1hbkyasnqt

import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

public class MyGame extends Applet implements Runnable {
Image background;
Image figure;
AudioClip Ninja;
AudioClip bang;

// Variables for application
int width = 700;
int height = 300;
int tilesx = 1;
int tilesy = 1;
int lives = 3;

// Variables for ninja;
int Ninja_pos = 20;
int NinjaY = 150;

// Variables for bullet:
boolean bullet = false;
int bullet_x = Ninja_pos;
int bullet_y = NinjaY + 50;
int bullet_speed = 2;


public void init() {
bang = getAudioClip(getCodeBase(), "bang.au");
Ninja = getAudioClip(getCodeBase(), "Ninja.au");
Ninja.play();
for (int y = 0; y < tilesy; y++) {

for (int x = 0; x < tilesx; x++) {
}
background = getImage(getCodeBase(), "Background.gif");
figure = getImage(getCodeBase(), "Figure.png");
setSize(700, 300);
}

}

public void start() {
Thread th = new Thread(this);
th.start();
}

public void run() {
Thread.currentThread().setPriority(Thread.MIN_PRIO RITY);


while(true)
{
draw_bullet();

try
{
Thread.sleep(5);
}
catch(InterruptedException x)
{}

Thread.currentThread().setPriority(Thread.MAX_PRIO RITY);
}
}

private void draw_bullet()
{
if(bullet)
{
bullet_y = bullet_y - bullet_speed;
bullet_x = Ninja_pos;
}
}
public void paint(Graphics g) {
g.drawImage(background, 0, 0, this);
g.drawImage(figure, Ninja_pos, NinjaY, this);
g.setFont(new Font("TimesRoman", Font.PLAIN, 18));
g.setColor(Color.WHITE);
g.drawString("Lives: " + lives, 25, 25);

if(bullet)
{
g.setColor(Color.BLACK);
g.fillRect(bullet_x, bullet_y, 150, 150);
}

}

// Keyboard
// ************************ KeyDown *************************************
public boolean keyDown(Event evt, int key) {
if (key == Event.LEFT) {
figure = getImage(getCodeBase(), "Figure2.png");
Ninja_pos = Ninja_pos - 5;
if(Ninja_pos<=30){
figure = getImage(getCodeBase(), "Figure.png");
Ninja_pos=30;
}
repaint();
}
if (Ninja_pos <= 0) {
Ninja_pos = 0;
}

if (key == Event.RIGHT) {
figure = getImage(getCodeBase(), "Figure.png");
Ninja_pos += 5;
if (Ninja_pos >= 640) {
figure = getImage(getCodeBase(), "Figure2.png");
Ninja_pos = 640;
}
repaint();
}

if (key == 32){
bang.play();
}

return false;

}

// Double buffering
private Image dbImage;
private Graphics dbg;

/** Update - Method, implements double buffering */
public void update(Graphics g) {
// initialize buffer
if (dbImage == null) {
dbImage = createImage(this.getSize().width, this.getSize().height);
dbg = dbImage.getGraphics();

}

// clear screen in background
dbg.setColor(getBackground());
dbg.fillRect(0, 0, this.getSize().width, this.getSize().height);


// draw elements in background
dbg.setColor(getForeground());
paint(dbg);

// draw image on the screen
g.drawImage(dbImage, 0, 0, this);

} }

I don't mean to be a nuisance, but can anyone help?

If it makes it any easier, I"ll be uploading the rpoject file.

Edit: Here it is http://mediafire.com/?q6ysy1hbkyasnqt I'll be adding it to the opening post as well

This is what I have and I'm having trouble seeing what's wrong with it.

We have trouble as well, given you haven't said anything about what is wrong (does it compile? exception? behavior? what exactly about the behavior do you expect, and what do you get?)

Please see the link in my signature entitled 'Getting Help' - it has a lot of advice that, if used, will help you phrase you question and make it much more answerable

Did you get to the part in the link I provided that mentions to use the code tags? You can edit your post and wrap your code within - this preserves indenting and highlights and makes code readable

The problem isn't getting input from the keyboard, as in the code above I tell it to play a clip whenever I press space and it does that properly, but more so actually painting the bullet and getting it to move across the screen when I press the space bar. Our teacher gave us a sample code with a bullet moving across the screen, and I believe that I copied it very well and made changes where it was necessary to. If it's of any help,here's an example of the working bullet coding.

From what I can gather from your code I will give 2 pieces of advice which are major but necessary changes:
1) keyDown/keyUp methods have been deprecated since java 1.1 - I highly recommend using a KeyListener ( see How to Write a Key Listener (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing > Writing Event Listeners) )
2) You should be very careful when threading and accessing values from multiple threads. The event listener model works from one thread, and you update from another - which can cause severe problems when each tries to access/set/get the same value at the same time. You can overcome this by synchronizing the changes. See Lesson: Concurrency (The Java™ Tutorials > Essential Classes)