Here's a thought (depending on what kind of accuracy you need): Have a
handler that is either triggered on idle, or every so many
milliseconds. In it push either LzKeys.downKeysHash or
LzKeys.downKeysArray onto an array, along with the current time. Then
analyze the array of keydowns to figure out what you need. Maybe that's
no better than what you're doing, and you still won't be able to tell a
press and hold from a rapid series of press and releases, but it's the
best I can think of. From what I can gather this is a limitation of the
Flash Player, not OpenLaszlo per se.
"The |onKeyDown| listenerEvent responds continuously while a key is
pressed."
-Jason
Robin Sheat wrote:
In the demo for the LzKeys class in the reference manual, if you hold down a
key you get a series of key events, e.g:
key 75 down
key 75 up
key 75 down
key 75 up
key 75 down
key 75 up
key 75 down
key 75 up
...
this becomes a real problem when you simply want to know when a key is
pressed, and then released later on.
Is there a good way to work out if this is a key-repeat event, or a real key
being pressed? In my case, I'm wanting to mark the time a key is pressed, and
the time it's let go, and do something based on those two values. These fake
events make that harder.
Cheers,
Robin.
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