Re: Re: Director/Flash/Keyboard events

[Buzz Kettles]

At 11:24 AM -0500 7/20/03, you wrote:
    I have had an awful time on my current project with Flash eating
keyboard commands, especially Tab.  I eventually had to abandon Tab
functionality entirely.  In my case, having buttons in the .swf caused all
focus to go to the .swf unless I had a text field on the page I could force
focus on.  When I had to disable the editable of that text field, the .swf
grabbed focus again.  In .swfs that had no buttons, the focus was not
grabbed.
    Dennis Tarwood
so one solution to this 'Flash grabbing keyboard focus' issue might 
be to have a #text sprite hidden off the visible stage, set to 
#editable?

-Buzz


 Message: 1
 From: "Todd Culley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 12:27:45 -0700
 Organization: SCRIBNERmedia
 Subject: <lingo-l> Director/Flash/Keyboard events
 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Does anyone know of any issues between director and flash when it comes to
 keyboard events?
  
 Using DirectorMX, FlashMX, WindowsXP Pro, Dual PIII, 1GB RAM
  
 I have a director application that is being used for a presentation.  It has
 three areas: 1 � title screen (press any key to continue), 2 � mpeg2 video,
 3 � flash slide show.  The presentation is very linear, however we added
 keyboard commands so the presenter can move around the presentation.
  
 [ESC] � exits/quits
 [HOME] � returns to the title screen
 [END] � jumps to flash presentation
 [SPACEBAR] � toggle, pauses/plays the video or flash sprite.
 [�] � go previous section
 [�] � go next section
  
 I have 5 .swf files that play in sequence named 1.swf, 2.swf, 3.swf, etc.
 when the user gets to 3.swf the keyboard events in director stop responding.
 1.swf is imported into director as a linked member and at the end there is
 actionScript that loads the next .swf file in the sequence.  These .swf
 files behave like a PowerPoint presentation and there are simple buttons
 that the user can go to the next frame label with in each .swf file.  We
 have narrowed it down to the 3.swf file using the message window to output
 > (the key) that was pressed.  It always dies at this file.
 >
 > The client supplied all the .swf files and we are providing the 
wrapper with
 > the video and title screen.  Initially the .swf files had keypress events
 but we thoroughly took all the keypress events out.  There is nothing
 unusual about these flash files that director can�t handle.  Basic
 animation, some movie clips, simple action script typical in any basic flash
 movie.  When we take 3.swf out of the chain there is no problem.  This had
 been driving us nuts and can�t for the life of me figure out why director
 stops receiving events on this one file.  This file is no different from the
 others, we have stripped it down, checked and double checked.  I would
 greatly appreciate any advice or input on why this might be happening.
  
 tia,
 todd
  
 Below is the behavior used on the frame and flash sprite:
  
 <frame script>
 --//beh_fs_keyboard
  
 --//property declarations
 property pProgramSprite
  
  
 --//EVENT HANDLERS
  
 on keyDown(me)
  
   put the key
   put the key.charToNum
  
   case (the key).charToNum of
      
       -- esc key
     27:
      
       bIsPlaying = sendSprite(pProgramSprite, #mIsPlaying)
      
       if bIsPlaying then
        
         sendSprite(pProgramSprite, #mPlayPause)
        
       end if
      
       ExitWindow_open()
      
       --space bar
     32: sendSprite(pProgramSprite,#mPlayPause)
      
       --left arrow
     28: go previous
      
       --right arrow
     29: go next
      
       --home key
     1: go to marker("start")
      
       --end key
     4:
       sWord = the labelList.line.count - 1
       sLabel = the labelList.word[sWord]
       go to marker(sLabel)     
      
   end case
 >  
 end
  
  
 on exitFrame me
  
   go to the frame
  
 end
  
  
 --//AUTHOR DEFINED HANDLERS
 on getPropertyDescriptionList(me)
  
   pdl = [:]
  
   pdl[#pProgramSprite] = [#comment:"Program Sprite #:", #format:#integer,
 #default:5]
  
   return pdl
  
 end
 </frame script>
  
 <flash sprite script>
 --//beh_flash
  
 --//property declarations
 property mySprite
 property myMember
 property pIsPlaying
  
  
 --//event handlers
 on beginSprite(me)
  
   put me
  
   mySprite = sprite(me.spriteNum)
   myMember = mySprite.member
  
   myMember.Loop              = FALSE
   myMember.directToStage = TRUE
  
   pIsPlaying = TRUE
  
 end
  
  
 on prepareFrame me
  
   if myMember.type = #flash then
    
     if mySprite.mouseOverButton then
      
       mySprite.cursor = 280
      
     else
      
       mySprite.cursor = -1
      
     end if
    
   end if
  
 end
  
  
 --//public interface
 on mIsPlaying(me)
  
   return pIsPlaying
  
 end
  
  
 on mPlayPause(me)
  
   if pIsPlaying then
     mySprite.stop()
   else
     mySprite.play()
   end if
  
   pIsPlaying = not pIsPlaying
  
 end
  
 </flash sprite script>
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