KEY_UP won´t work for key ENTER without clicking on stage

Report · Mar 21, 2012

Hi.

I´m trying to catch KEY_UP event if I press ENTER, without clicking on stage.

I´ve already disabled keyboard shorcuts for flash player, and added stage.focus = stage.

Not succeeding.

It only works if I click on stage.

It seems that for the other keys the KEY_UP works.

Any help?

Report · Mar 21, 2012

are you testing in your browser or, if in the test environment, did you disable keyboard shortcuts?

Report · Mar 21, 2012

Yes I have disabled.

KEY_DOWN works for key ENTER, without click on stage, but KEY_UP doesn´t.

Report · Mar 21, 2012

you're correct.

you won't even be able to capture your keydown's if you're creating a browser based app unless you use javascript to assign focus to your flash.

Report · Mar 21, 2012

What if I wanted to add focus (as clicking on stage) for a projector (aka EXE file)

Report · Mar 21, 2012

test and let us know.

Report · Mar 21, 2012

Works for projector files, no need to click on stage.

How do I set flash focus for Chrome?

I know that for IE is document.getElementById("movieID").focus();

What is needed to set flash focus on Chrome?

Report · Mar 21, 2012

use javascript to assign focus in a browser. this is from an adobe kb article:

To the <BODY> tag, add an onLoad handler that gives focus to the Flash movie, as shown below: <body onLoad="window.document.movieID.focus();"> Make sure that movieID in the onLoad handler matches the name given to the OBJECT tag used to embed the Flash movie, as shown below. <object classid="..." codebase="...." width=550 height=400 name="movieID"> You can give any name to the OBJECT tag as long as it doesn't contain any spaces or other special characters.

Report · Mar 21, 2012

Yes, but that is used for Internet Explorer.

That doesn´t work on Chrome, and I think for Firefox too.

What is used for Chrome?

I´ve tried to use ExternalInterface and LoaderInfo in addition to some js.

It only gives flash focus I think, doesn´t seems to give keyboard focus.

I have an input text field on my swf.

The cursor blinks inside the text input, but I can´t write (type) anything inside the input text.

Report · Jun 27, 2012

I have the same problem and it would be awesome when someone could give a solution for any browser.

Is there someone with a working solution?????????

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KEY_UP won´t work for key ENTER without clicking on stage