Keyboard control in Flash 4

[JohnColley]

How can I control my flash movie by keyboard in flash 4?

Just want to gotoAndPlay ("Scene x", x); using the space bar!

[katharine]

You can do this by creating an invisible button and placing it on the stage where you want the key command to register, and then on the actions tab, deselect "on release" and select "on key command"

On (Key: <Space>)
      Go to and Stop (Scene 1, "x")
End On

The only catch is, the invisible button will cause the mouse cursor to change to a hand. To prevent this, move the invisible button off stage and you should be fine (I haven't done full tests of this, but so far it seems to work).

Hope that helps,
Kate

[JohnColley]

Hi Katharine,

Thanks for your reply! Got what I wanted in a round-a-bout sort of way! I was trying to export a Flash 4 file from Flash 5, but couldn't understand why the Flash 4 code wasn't working!!! Didn't even realise there was an automated function for doing this in Flash - should have read the manual hey?