The main motive of doing such an exercise was to learn sending keyboard events programmatically to flex through JavaScript, in case the browser would block ctrl -key events.
In one of my earlier posts, I had mentioned about a particular limitation w.r.t to ctrl key events in flex application running in IE7. Although I was able to solve the issue by developing a JavaScript solution, it is not satisfactory and depends too much on ExternalInterface/Javascript. An online word processor Buzzword, recently acquired by Adobe has overcome these shortcomings i.e it supports ctrl keyboard handling in most of the browsers. So I would be really grateful to Adobe if they could share some resources, tutorials and best practices related to this issue. Thanks, Peeyush Tuli MetaDesign Solutions ----- Original Message ----- From: Alex Harui To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 10:58 AM Subject: RE: [flexcoders] KeyBoard Event Simulation Keyboard events are notification events and not input events, which means that the player/textfield doesn't actually listen to and respond to these events, and just dispatch the events so we can know what is going on. You will have to write your own keyboard simulator for the TextInput that uses the events and alters the text and I-beam position accordingly. Or, copy the text from one TextInput to the other on the "change" event. You can even use binding if you want. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peeyush Tuli Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 9:45 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] KeyBoard Event Simulation Hi, I am trying to pass on keyboard events recieved by a textinput to another textinput, so that all keyboard actions are replicated on it. But it is not working. If I place a keydownhandler at the second textInput, it does receive the event but nothing is written into the textinput. // keydownhandler for first textinput public function keyDownHndlr(event:KeyboardEvent):void { var evt:KeyboardEvent = new KeyboardEvent(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN); evt.ctrlKey = event.ctrlKey; evt.altKey = event.altKey; evt.shiftKey = event.shiftKey; evt.keyCode = event.keyCode; evt.charCode = event.charCode; // dispatch event to the uitextfield on the second textinput t1.getChildAt(1).dispatchEvent(evt); Am I missing something? Regards, Peeyush Tuli MetaDesignSolutions
