Do you mean like, set up a boolean to track whose turn it is to draw (maybe called 'iaTurn'), and if it is false then get keystrokes from the keyboard and if it is true get characters from a list (or something like that)? If that is what you were looking for, you will need one more boolean to track 'iaIsDrawing' and a String to hold the last 'iaChar' and an integer to count down the time the "key is held down".