Thanks - event.preventDefault() works if I'm listening for KEY_DOWN - had tried it before but was listening for KEY_UP.
_ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T 952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global Agency Report Card 2009 - Gold Medal Winner The Holmes Report Global Agency of the Year PR News Agency of the Year -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Henrik Andersson Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 11:02 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] preventing control characters from being typed Mattheis, Erik (MIN-WSW) wrote: > I need to make a form that can be used without a mouse. I have > > etc, which captures a control-s just fine, but it types a "box" character > into the textfield. How do I go about preventing this? There is a preventDefault method in the Event class. But I am not sure that it is used for this particular event. If it is not, just prevent the event from being dispatched to the final object by calling stopPropagation before that happens. You may need to use a capturing listener for that. _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
