I have been trying to build a global keyboard listener that grabs any keystroke in the flash movie. The keyboard should move the games character around on screen regardless of what flex button has recently been clicked or what textfield has focus. My stumbling block is that when I attach an event listener to the main MXML application tag, it only recieves keyboard events when a button, textfield, or other flex component is selected(has focus). The main flex application window does not send keyboard events, only components do. I would like to know how to capture keyboard events when nothing in the application is selected?
I can guess at 2 ways of doing this:
1. I think could build the app so it has a textfield that is given focus when nothing else is selected, and capture all keystrokes here.
2. I may be able to find a way of making the main application window dispatch keyboard events..?
An example of a Flex application that handles keyboard events would be a great help.
Thanks for any thoughts,
Drew
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