Key press capturing not working

[pencilking2002]

Hi. I'm trying to capture some key presses but nothing seems to happen. Here's my code:

 #target illustrator
var palette = new Window("palette", "Animation Settings");
var playButton = palette.add("button", undefined, "Play");
    playButton.addEventListener("keydown", function (kd) {
           testKeyPress(kd);
    });
 function testKeyPress(k)
{
     $.writeln(k.keyName);
 }
palette.show();

Any ideas as to why that doesn't work? I thought you could attach a keypress listener to any UI object? Attaching it to the palette doesn't work either. I'm targeting illustrator CS6

[CarlosCanto]

your code works perfectly. Just make sure to button is "Active" or it has the "Focus". Do that by pressing TAB key once.

[pencilking2002]

Hi CarlosCanto​. I see that makes sense. What I'd like to do though is be able to listen for key presses globally without having to focus on any object. Do you know how I would do that?

[CarlosCanto · Accepted solution]

unfortunately, there's no access to keystroke events using scripting. Except for what you tried above.

[Silly-V]

The same code attached to the window object works, as long as someone 'tabs' into the window, making the button have its blue fill.

function test(){

    #target illustrator 

var palette = new Window("palette", "Animation Settings"); 

var playButton = palette.add("button", undefined, "Play"); 

    palette.addEventListener("keydown", function (kd) { 

           testKeyPress(kd); 

    }); 

  palette.onShow = function(){

    playButton.active = true;

  };

function testKeyPress(k) 

{ 

     $.writeln(k.keyName + " : " + k.target);

} 

palette.show(); 

}

test();