The browser eats lots of keystroke combinations. In general, I think folks design UIs not to use those shortcuts, even though they are the obvious ones to use.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peeyush Tuli Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 10:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] ALTGr key gives two keyboard events Hi, The application I am working on runs in full screen mode have keydown event handler at the application level. Whenever it receives a ctrl key down event, focus is passed to the html window which wraps the application through an ExternalInterface call. The window also has a keydown handler which detects the next key down event, then it passes this event to flex. This is a sort workaround to implement keyboard shortcuts for our application when it runs in IE7 because IE7 would block most of the ctrl key shortcuts for an activeX plug-in. After some debugging, I found that The ctrl key down event would reach flex but after that any other key down event would not reach flex if it was a keyboard shortcut for IE7, which again is a selective passing of keyboard events to the activeX plug-ins by IE7. In that case, is there any other way apart from the approach I am following to prevent IE7 from blocking the ctrl keyboard events to Flash player plug-in ? Thanks, Peeyush Tuli MetaDesign Solutions ----- Original Message ----- From: Alex Harui <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 11:40 PM Subject: RE: [flexcoders] ALTGr key gives two keyboard events IE hands the activeX plug-ins two keystrokes. What JS keyboard event handling are you talking about? ________________________________ From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peeyush Tuli Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 6:14 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [flexcoders] ALTGr key gives two keyboard events Hi all, I have to implement keyboard ctrl key shortcuts for an application which should run among other browsers, IE7 also. Now IE7 consumed most of the ctrl key shortcuts not allowing flash player access to them. I read about the usage of Javascript to block the event and pass control to the flex application using external interface. So far .. So good. This application is targeted at swedish users who would use a swedish keyboard layout, where the ALTGr key is used for typing in characters like @. Interestingly, pressing the ALTGr key down generates two events in my keydown handler, one for an ctrl key and one for a alt key, in the same sequence. This interferes with the javascript based keyboard event handling mechanism already in place for the ctrl key. The ALTGr key press is working fine on FireFox, implying that flex is handling ALTGr as key combination, rather as one key. I tried to simulate the behaviour by dispatching simultaneous ctrl and alt key events, but it doesent work. Can someone from Adobe confirm about this behavior and any suggestions of how to deal with it? Regards, Peeyush Tuli MetaDesign Solutions
