You're probably hitting the classic, browser won't activate plug-in issue. When Flash apps start up in FireFox, they can't be given focus.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aconfrey Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 6:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Problem with Keyboard events in Firefox (OSX) Thanks Shaun. I tried adding the listener to the stage (need to change the startUp function to be triggered from an addedToStage event so that the stage was set but otherwise the code is the same). However I see exactly the same behavior. Any other ideas? Thanks, Tony --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , shaun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I think you need to attach the listeners to the stage. > > HTH > > aconfrey wrote: > > I'm going crazy with a bug/feature trying to receive keyboard events. > > I've created a very basic app to demonstrate. I have a VBox with a > > Canvas containing a TextArea. I want the TextArea to be invisible > > unless a certain key is pressed. With the code as listed below on > > Firefox I only receive KEY_DOWN events for the 'apple' key and the > > shift key! If I click in the application area then everything works > > fine and all events are received, but I don't want my user to have to > > click. On Safari and the standalone Flex player all keyboard events > > are received without clicking. > > > > I've played around with all combinations of which container to > > register for key press events on and which container to set focus to. > > Apart from making the behavior even more bizarre nothing seems to work. > > > > What am I missing? > > > > Thanks > > > > Tony > > ---------- > > KeyPressTest.mxml > > ---------- > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > > <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml> " > > layout="absolute" width="100%" height="100%"> > > <mx:Script><![CDATA[ > > public var theClass:Typer; > > public function startUp(c:Canvas, txt:TextArea):void { > > theClass = new Typer(c, txt); > > } > > ]]></mx:Script> > > <mx:VBox horizontalCenter="14" verticalCenter="18" height="100%" > > width="100%" horizontalAlign="center" verticalAlign="middle"> > > <mx:Canvas id="cnvs" height="100%" width="100%" borderStyle="solid" > > creationComplete="startUp(this.cnvs, this.txt)"> > > <mx:TextArea width="100%" height="100" verticalScrollPolicy="auto" > > id="txt" visible="false" text="Can you see Me?"/> > > </mx:Canvas> > > </mx:VBox> > > </mx:Application> > > ------------ > > Typer.as > > ------------ > > package > > { > > import mx.containers.*; > > import mx.controls.*; > > import flash.events.KeyboardEvent; > > > > public class Typer > > { > > private var ta:TextArea; > > private var cv:Canvas; > > public function Typer(c:Canvas, txtArea:TextArea) { > > ta=txtArea; > > cv=c; > > cv.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN,typing); > > cv.setFocus(); > > } > > > > public function typing(e:KeyboardEvent):void{ > > trace("now we're typing - keydown", e); > > ta.visible=!ta.visible; > > cv.setFocus(); > > } > > } > > } > > > > >
