RE [XERTE]: Catching key combinations

[Julian Tenney]

That's AS3.0. Show me a solution in Flash 8.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick Lockley
Sent: 12 January 2011 15:15
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Subject: RE: RE [XERTE]: Catching key combinations

onkeyup events - http://www.mail-archive.com/flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com/msg55921.html

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney [Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 3:09 PM
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Subject: RE: RE [XERTE]: Catching key combinations
You would (for CTRL anyway) wait for the key to go down you want to see if CTRL is down with, and the do

This.onKeyDown = function(){
  If (the key we are interested in is down, i.e. 'p') see if CTRL is down as well
If (Key.isDOwn(Key.Control)

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick Lockley
Sent: 12 January 2011 15:07
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Subject: RE: RE [XERTE]: Catching key combinations

So when you press an alt key you get no keycode, but you do get a keycode event?

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney [Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 12:02 PM
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Subject: RE: RE [XERTE]: Catching key combinations
The trouble is you can't get a keyDown event from the ALT key going down, and there is not Key.ALT constant for checking

if (Key.isDown(Key.ALT)){ //blah





From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick Lockley
Sent: 12 January 2011 12:01
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Subject: RE: RE [XERTE]: Catching key combinations

I built a game once where alt worked with another key in flash?

Wasn't there some code lying around somewhere that did this - a keydownevent inside a keydownevent?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 12 January 2011 11:54
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Subject: RE: RE [XERTE]: Catching key combinations

Looks like it might be troublesome then. First thing will be try and get Flash to recognise what you want, then see if we can get Xerte to handle it as well,

J

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 12 January 2011 11:46
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Subject: RE: RE [XERTE]: Catching key combinations


Replicate shortcut combinations used in another program.
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From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:53:50 +0000
Subject: RE: RE [XERTE]: Catching key combinations
Apparently there is no Key.ALT constant. I can't get Flash itself to respond to a key press when ALT is held down.

What are you trying to do?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 11 January 2011 22:08
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Subject: RE [XERTE]: Catching key combinations




Unfortunately, I can't get onKeyDown to fire if ALT is being held down.


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Can't you wait for the key to go down and then do

If (Key.isDown(Key.ALT))
{
  //alt and the key are down
}

Sent: 18 November 2010 18:11
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Subject: [Xerte] Catching key combinations


I'm trying to keep some alignment in a piece I'm porting from another tool.

Some of the buttons use ALT+someKey as shortcuts.
The onKeyDown event doesn't pick up ALT.
Any ALTernatives?

Dave

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From: d_b_burnett at hotmail.com
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Subject: Catching key combinations
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:10:51 -0500


I'm trying to keep some alignment in a piece I'm porting from another tool.

Some of the buttons use ALT+someKey as shortcuts.
The onKeyDown event doesn't pick up ALT.
Any ALTernatives?

Dave

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