ActionScript 3.0 :: Keyboard Event Fires Only Once On OSX?
Dec 29, 2010
Tracing the keyCode for the 'a' key (65) only works once for KEY_DOWN events and sometimes KEY_UP behaves in the same way, making development a pain when trying to do things quickly.
Clicking on the stage makes it start working, but why is it just the 'a' key that is affected?
This is on a new MBP running OSX 10.6.5, Flash version MAC 10,1,102,64
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The issue can be reproduced every time with this code:
ActionScript Code:
import flash.events.KeyboardEvent;
stage.addEventListener (KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, keyDownHandler);
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