[Laszlo-dev] getting keydown events for the 'alt' key in Windows

[Raju Bitter]

It's a reported bug in the FP bug database: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-815

On Mar 3, 2009, at 10:23 AM, Henry Minsky wrote:

> There's a bug reported
> (http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-7826) which is happening
> because on
> Windows the Flash player does not send an onKeyDown event when the alt
> key is pressed.
>
> It is possible in swf8 to poll for the alt key calling
> Key.isDown(Key.ALT), so in theory we could
> have an onIdle task which sits around looking for the keypress and
> generating a simulated onkeydown event, but
> that seems like a real hack.
>
> Also, I don't see anything in swf9 which corresponds to the
> Key.isDown() call, so I don't see how to
> poll for the alt key in swf9 at all.
>
> I'm leaning towards classifying this bug as "Not Laszlo", as there
> does not seem to be any good way to make
> the alt key events look like other key press events.
>
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> -- 
> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> hminsky at laszlosystems.com