I'm a Flash newbie and I'm trying to get some keyboard action going. I've followed some tutorials, but nothing seems to work. To test it I created a brand new fla file and added the following code in the first frame:
[Code]...
The first trace ("Add listener") shows up in the debug output, but no matter which keys I press I can't get the function to be called. Am I doing it wrong?
Alright I'm new to Keyboard event listeners so I might be making a really obvious mistake that I don't know about. But what I want to do is, when someone types the letters for the word 'BROTHER', then it appears on the screen and it moves to the next frame. Here's the code I have atm I currently have the letters for 'BROTHER' each as a movie clip. The instance names are, RKey, OKey, etc.
[code]...
Now, is this the only mistake in my thing? Or are there more mistakes? How do I fix it?
I have an error on my KeyboardEvent and I can't find what the problem is. The file of my class is mc_boog.as and when I compile it returns me this error: 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: KeyboardEvent.
View 2 RepliesI currently have an AS3 fla with a couple of mouseEvent functions but now the client wants to add a KeyboardEvent as well to the same exact functions. Can I add another eventListener to that without having to create a second function? It would be a huge waste of code if I did. Here's what I currently have in truncated form:
rightArrow.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, slide_right);
leftArrow.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, slide_left);
function slide_right(e:MouseEvent):void {
[code]....
I'm trying to add a KeyBoard event in addition to the MouseEvent I already have for my function. So I set up the following code to handle that but it's giving me 1136 errors looking for an argument inside the parenthesis when in reality, it doesn't need one.
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, onKeyPressed);
function onKeyPressed(evt:KeyboardEvent):void {
switch (evt.keyCode) {
[code]....
I'm using very basic code to move an object around the stage using keys on the keyboard (W,A,S,D). However, I have noticed at times when the CPU hiccups, flash does not register that a key was released and in turn my object keeps moving in a direction without any keys pressed. The only way to stop the object from moving is to press the key corresponding to the direction the object is moving.
View 9 RepliesI had a problem with KeyboardEvent in ActionScript 3.0,I created a simple shooting game, the game has 2 Frame,
1. Title Game (Frame 1)
2. Game Playing (Frame 2)
The problem is in Frame 1 when Button is clicked playinggame then switched Frame to Frame 2 where the game takes place where the user can move the aircraft by using the keyboard, (Left Arrow, Up Arrow, Right Arrow & Down Arrow).But when a keyboard button is pressed, KeyboardEvent not react at all, and aircraft can not be controlled.Even more bizarre when the stage at the click KeyboardEvent can react and aircraft can be controlled.how to keep the button is clicked playinggame in Frame and the Frame 2, the aircraft can still be controlled using the keyboard [URL]
In the keyboardEvent, the ENTER key is not responding.. why?.... any other option is there?
[Code]....
I'm trying to rotate ou flip an object with Keyboard Event with this code
stop();stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, onKeyPressed);function onKeyPressed(evt:KeyboardEvent):void { switch(evt.keyCode) { case Keyboard.R: mod.rotation +=
[code].....
I made a login (textfield and a button).
mybutton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,loginCheck); // This is my button
function loginCheck(event:MouseEvent):void { // My function code here
}
In order to make login using Enter button, I tried adding:
[Code].....
But of course it won't works because loginCheck is a MouseEvent function.
I´m making a game.This game has 4 frames.It has a preloader.swf and game.swf.The preloader.swf loads the game.swf.The game.swf has 4 frames.In the first frame is given to the user the options to play the game (clicking a button "playGame" on "click" event) and to set the sounds settings (clicking a button "options" on "click" event).So far so good.
When the user clicks "playGame" I send the user to frame 2, where it has the option to select a game level using the arrow keys. So within the playGameListener I registered two keyboard events one for KEY_UP and another for KEY_DOWN. So, to have sure that it´s working, I added a trace for each keyboard event listener. But I´m not getting any message in the output window while pressing
left arrow or right arrow or any arrow.
So I learned that KeyboardEvent only dispatches an event if the flash player has focus.Well I think the flash player has never losed focus in this process.I´ve registered two events for Event.ACTIVATE and Event.DEACTIVATE and inside its listeners I added a trace with a message. Flash outputs me a message if I minimize the flash player window or if I maximize the flash player,but not while the game.swf´s frame transition.The listeners for the KeyboardEvent works only when I press at the flash player, then I receive the messages from the KeyboardEvent listeners.
I'm new to ActionScript development and am using the FlashDevelop IDE. I've been playing around with some really simplistic things and have come across a problem I can't seem to solve.My application compiles and runs, and a function that watches click events fires perfectly and I can see the event in the console when I pass it to trace(), yet the same code watching for KeyboardEvent fails to fire at all.Here's my code:
package GameTesting
{
import flash.display.Bitmap;[code]............
The MouseEvent trace() fires every time as expected, but KeyboardEvent never fires, no matter what key I press.
I created a Paddle class that doesn't do anything yet. However, I don't think it is working.[code]...
View 2 RepliesOk, so I am creating a slideshow presentation in Flash CS5. The code is very basic, however it does not work as intended. It's supposed to go to the next frame if i press a button, or press up/right arrow on the keyboard. However, the keyboard only works after I've pressed a button once.
my code:
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.events.KeyboardEvent;
slides.stop();
[Code]....
slides is a movieclip, where I've stored all my slides (Oh, by the way, I know my setup isn't the best, but I wouldn't use a lot of time on it, as it's for a religion class). FB is forward button, and you can guess what BB is..
Ive been using the 'event' parameter for my KeyboardEvents and MouseEvents in a recent project ive been working on for my course (VERY BASIC).Im not entirely sure on what the 'e' part of e:KeyboardEvent actually does, and ive been asked to find out what information the parameter 'e' can actually access when using it.
EDIT: If A method takes the parameter (e:KeyboardEvent). what information could we access through the use of the parameter e?
I have a problem with a game I am working on which where keyboard events do not get registered properly. Here is my setup.I have four frames in the main FLA.1) main menu
2) instructions movie clilp3) game movie clip4) game over movie clipThe game is basically a racing game. Once the game class initiates (3rd frame) I create an instance of the car class and place it on the track. I listen to the keyboard KEY_UP and KEY_DOWN events in the car class. The problem is once I click the START button everything works fine except the keyboard event listeners. They do not get registered unless I click on the stage once. Here is the constructor and init() from my car class.
Quote:
public function Car(startingX:Number = 100, startingY:Number = 100, rotationOf:Number = 0) {
[code]......
The keyCode property only stores one Key. This means that, if I was making a game for example and wanted to have it so that if the up key and the left key were pressed it would move up and left at the same time.I've tried extending the keyboardEvent class and storing the keyCodes in an array, but It returns an error.Here's my class.
package{
import flash.events.*
public class KeyEvent extends KeyboardEvent{
[code].....
End point I want to get something like this "stage.1addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN,ke yPressHandler);" working in a dynamically created object eg PlayerShip. The afore mentioned line works fine when in a static object , that is to say one I dragged from the library to the stage prior to compiling. However when I create the object 'PlayerShip' using script in my main time line I get the following output:
[Code]...
I'm having a little problem with a website i'm trying to build here.URL...So what i want is the following:Now the first thing you have to do is click on the little van to focus on it, this is done by:[code]But what i wan't is that you don't need to Click on the van before you can control it, so that when you push the right arrow the van automaticly starts moving.Because when i wan't to start adding other buttons on the houses the website starts to freak out (focus switches etc etc...)[code]any comments on the IF function to move the van are always welcome, cause i do believe there has to be a way to write this in a more effective way.
View 3 RepliesI have a NumericStepper in my stage, and I have a Keyboard listener which listens for pressed keys.The listener works fine until I change the value in the NumericStepper.I think it's the textField in the NumericStepper that ruins it.
But i've tried
myNumericStepper.textField.enabled = false
and
myNumericStepper.textField.selectable = false;
But nothing works.
I made a document class and created an instance of a keyDetection class
Code:
//Document Class
package com
[code].....
Does anyone know the greatest possible value the "keyCode" property will return?I'm mostly worried about international keyboards.I'm wanting to release a few KeyboardEvents myself using some rather nifty code (if I may say so myself) and want to make sure there are no future conflicts.Each of my "special keys" have a unique id numbered sequentially. Is there anywhere I can start my numbering from where I can be safe from conflicting key codes?
View 3 RepliesI have a keyboardEvent which listens for pressed keys. I also have a NumericStepper. If I change the value in the NumericStepper, the keyboardEvent stops working (I think the reason is that the textField in the numericStepper, or the numericStepper itself, gets active). So, I've tried alot of things.
numericstepper.textField.enabled = false
numericstepper.textField.selectable = false
numericstepper.textField.editable = false etc...
But nothing seems to work.
In this script, I'm moving a sprite on the stage up and down using the keyboard. Works fine, except that there is a long delay after the SWF file has loaded until the key presses are registered and the sprite moves.
It takes about 5 seconds after I open the SWF file before the movement works.
[Code].....
Here's my code:
[Code]...
Everything worked perfectly fine in CS5, then I converted it to CS4 and it won't move my guy around, or even trace anything, when I press the WASD keys. The arrow keys still work fine.
I was wondering what a best practice is to capte a word.For example if someone types in 'hello' then a function should be initialized.
Should i push every letter that is pressed in an Array? and check on every keydown if the word is in the array?Or is it better to use a string and add a letter to this string en look in it to see if there is a match?
I put together a rather simple interactive .swf file using graphical "buttons" to navigate through different screens. Afterwards, I was told to add in two keyboard events as well: one to navigate to the next screen and one to restart the .swf file.
Using the keyboard to navigate the way I explained above works fine--that is, until I use the mouse to click on a button. Once I do that, the keyboard events no longer work. For example, if I start off the .swf file by pressing the Space bar on the keyboard to navigate to another page, it works fine. If I then press the "R" key on the keyboard to restart the .swf file, that works fine as well.
However, the first time I click on one of the buttons on the stage to navigate to another screen, the keyboard events no longer work. I can press the Space bar, and nothing. I can press the "R" key to restart the .swf file, and nothing. It's as if using a mouse event disabled the keyboard events or made the .swf file stop "listening" for keyboard events. The only way I can get the keyboard events to work again is by clicking somewhere on the stage and THEN pressing the appropriate keyboard key. I'm guessing that's because I put the focus back on the stage, maybe?? (again, not an expert here)
My code is ridiculously simple, and it's on the first frame:
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, onKey);
function onKey(event:KeyboardEvent):void
{
[Code]....
Is there anything I need to do to this to make sure the .swf file is always "listening" and registering the keyboard events?
Is it possible to check for pressed keys without using the KeyboardEvent?
I have an ENTER_FRAME event setup called enterFrameHandler and I want to check within the function enterFrameHandler if any keys are pressed.
normally when using a KeyboardEvent I could check for keys easily using a switch that checks the KeyCode of the event, but in an ENTER_FRAME event this isn't possible for me.
Is there any other way of checking the keyboard's state within the ENTER_FRAME event?
UPDATE:
I found this AS2 script:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
_x -= power;
[Code]....
This seems to be doing what I want, but it's in AS2, does anyone know how to 'translate' this into AS3?
I have a movieclip called keyCButton that I want to add a keyboardEvent ("C" Key) to. This will play an animation from frames 2-30 with a sound. I have watched a few tutorials but still haven't gotten the correct information to make it work. The following is my code.
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, cNote);
function cNote(event:KeyboardEvent):void
{
if (event.keyCode == Keyboard.C)
[Code]....
When I try it with the SPACE instead of C i don't get errors but it still doesn't work
I'm loading an image in to my flex application and I'm trying to move the image via keyboard. I added an event listener to the application but the image will not move. How can I get it so that the flex 4 top level application can use the keyboard listener. The only possible way I'm figuring out how to get the keyboard event listener to work is add to to a text field.[code]Take into consideration I'm not even getting the trace on the keyboard event.
View 1 Replies
