'keydown' not 'keyDown'
And yes, Keyboard is an incredibly awesome class, but most of the time a simple
keydown or keyup event is enough in my experience.
On Jul 22, 2010, at 9:55 AM, Aaron Newton wrote:
> Keyboard does make this easy. It's only complicated if you are using more
> than one Keyboard at a time (imagine if you had two slideshows on the screen;
> Keyboard lets you switch focus from one widget to the other so that hitting
> the right arrow key doesn't make them both rotate).
>
> You don't need Keyboard to do this though. Just do this:
>
> $(document.body).addEvent('keyDown', function(event) {
> if (event.right) this.slideShowSwap(true);
> });
>
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Sanford Whiteman
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What I would like to be able to do as well is:
> > $(right_arrow_on_keyboard).addEvent('press_down', function(e)
> > {
> > this.slideShowSwap(true);
>
> That looks a little backward. You probably want to handle the keydown
> event on document and then check event.code and fireEvent()
> accordingly.
>
> Keyboard in -More I think would allow you to express the logic the way
> you have it (programming the keys, as it were, instead of the window,
> though the same events are used under the hood). It looks pretty
> awesome but intimidating too.
>
> -- Sandy
>
>
