Action on key (keyboard not mouse) press

[Mack]

I want to skip to a certain frame in my movie when the user presses a certain key. No mouse actions involved at all!

Is this possible, if so how?

Thanks for the help...

[davidmasterson]

in a button try the following

on (keyPress "R") {
gotoAndPlay (10);
}

I think you have to have had atleast one mouse event somewhere in you swf previously for this to work

[rapidcarbon]

This would be very dynamic if we can do something like this. every time a key pressed, we get the value (using Key.getCode() or Key.getASCII()) and assign to a variable. Then we convert that variable back to it value (if it is 65 then it is "A"), then we can call any frame which label "a","b", "c", etc dynamically using gotoAndStop(thisVarValue);

We know we can create a function to convert a value back to character easily, but why Macromedia did not include that in Flash?

[davidmasterson]

whats wrong with

chr(Key.getCode())

???

[rapidcarbon]

PERFECT. I did overlook that function.

Thanks.