ok well here is the code... i have a brick class, a brickscreen class,
and a dodger class... i realized that in my html file i really called
brickmain instead of brickscreen...
hope this is what you wanted.
Here you go:

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.applet.Applet;

public class brickmain extends JApplet implements KeyListener
{
private brickscreen displayboard;
private JLabel label;
private JButton startbutton;

public void init()
   {
     displayboard = new brickscreen();
     displayboard.setBackground(Color.blue);
     startbutton = new JButton("Start");
     startbutton.addActionListener (new ButtonListener ());

      label = new JLabel("Test: ");
     Container cp = getContentPane();
      cp.add(startbutton, BorderLayout.NORTH);
    cp.add(displayboard, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    cp.add(label, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
    addKeyListener(this);
}

public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e)
{
int code = e.getKeyCode();

label.setText(Integer.toString(code));

switch(code)
{
case KeyEvent.VK_UP:
displayboard.moveup();
label.setText("It Worked");
break;

case KeyEvent.VK_RIGHT:
displayboard.moveright();
label.setText("It Worked");
break;

case KeyEvent.VK_LEFT:
displayboard.moveleft();
label.setText("It Worked");
break;

}

}

public void keyReleased (KeyEvent e)
{}

public void keyTyped (KeyEvent e)
{}

private class ButtonListener implements ActionListener
{
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
{
requestFocus ();
displayboard.start();
}
}
}