Thread: disabling keys

hen user press can key than the code below gets the key user just pressed. the problem is that i want to only limit user to press alphabet and numbers. so i want to disable weird char ex left, right, up, @,$,!,%..... as you can see this will take up alot of if statments. is there better way to do this?

if(keys == KeyEvent.VK_SHIFT || keys == KeyEvent.VK_CAPS_LOCK || keys ==KeyEvent.VK_LEFT ||
   keys ==KeyEvent.VK_RIGHT || keys ==KeyEvent.VK_DOWN || keys ==KeyEvent.VK_UP   .....)  //more button to disable
{
}
else{  //store the char in array			
	username[z] = e.getKeyChar();
	z++;
}

and.....

come to think of it arent you also NormR?

posting same answer at Disabling keys - Dev Shed

also anser can be found at http://bytes.com/topic/java/answers/...ys#post3749288