Competing "Space" key control?

[LayneSmith]

Friends,

I'm creating a little word game that includes a timer. Basically, you see how fast you can enter somebody's name.

Here's my challenge. You hit the SPACE key to start and stop a timer. The problem is that when you enter the SPACE between somebody's first and last name, it stops the timer!

Is there a way for the timer to disregard the SPACE key when you're in a text input field so it doesn't affect the timer?

Thanks,
Layne

[redjag]

Well, you could put a listener on the text field to stop the event from bubbling to whatever parent object is catching it. I have to think that there could be a better key for starting/stopping the timer, or perhaps you don't even need one at all - first keystroke starts the timer and once they have it typed you can stop it. Unless you want imperfect submissions, then maybe the return/enter key would work for the stop key - people are used to hitting enter to submit forms all over the place.