Define a keyDown event handler at the application level. Because of the Flex 2.0 event model, all keydown events, from all controls, should bubble up to the Application. Here is a little application I made to test this. The bottom text area will show all keys typed, no matter the control that has the focus when the key was pressed.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application keyDown="keyCapture(event)" xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; layout="vertical"> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ private function keyCapture(event: KeyboardEvent) : void { allKeys.text += String.fromCharCode(event.charCode); } ]]> </mx:Script> <mx:Label text="Text1" /> <mx:TextArea id="textArea" height="200" width="200" /> <mx:Label text="Text2" /> <mx:TextInput id="textInput" /> <mx:Label text="Button:" /> <mx:Button label="Set Focus here" /> <mx:Label text="Key Capture" /> <mx:TextArea selectable="false" id="allKeys" width="400" height="400" /> </mx:Application> __ Josh Vanderberg -- http://vanderblog.typepad.com --- In [email protected], "Chad Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am just doing research and need some input. > > We would like to make an Air/Flex app that when you scan in a barcode you get product details from a database that CF is serving out. > > The barcode scanner works like a key board and at the end of a scan I can have it send a carriage return. I don't want the user to have to put focus on a text input field then scan the barcode to get a result. I want them so that any keyboard entry from the scanner will always pull up product details upon the carriage return. > > It does not matter what section of the Appliction they are in. If text entry is present from the barcode scanner then I want to return product details from the database. > > Has anyone built an app that works with a barcode reader in this way? > > Any quick code suggestions on capturing the text input from the barcode reader? > > Thanks! >
