[F8] escape key problom

[kuller]

I have a code from previous code of flase, that use ESC key,
this code is not working when I publish my movie to flash 8 movie,

code:

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global.myKeyHandler = new Object()



_global.myKeyHandler.onKeyUp = function(){

	var theKeyCode = Key.getCode();

	trace(theKeyCode)

	switch(theKeyCode) {

		case Key.ESCAPE: // ESC pressed

			trace("ESC pressed");

			break;

		case Key.TAB:  // tab key

			trace("TAB pressed");

			break;

	}

}



Key.addListener(_global.myKeyHandler);

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when i test the movie (Control > Test Movie) it can work only if chose to publish to older flash player or if I chose to disable keyboard shortcuts
(Control > Disable Keyboard Shortcuts).

it look like the "esc" key is disabled for flash 8, is there a way to bypass this?

10x

[nunomira]

hi,

It's

code:

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_global.myKeyHandler = new Object()

// not

global.myKeyHandler = new Object()

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Apart from this, as long as you disable shortcut keys as you've mentioned, it works just fine in Fash 8, published for any flash player version... (8, 7, 6) and AS version (1, 2).

[kuller]

"as long as you disable shortcut keys as you've mentioned,"

the global is not the issue,it can be _global, global and or be remove. disabaling shortcut key is available only when testing the movie inside flash program, in the development envierment,
how can i disable them by code?

[nunomira]

I tried it and the escape key gets detected (when published for FP8) in Firefox, IE and in a projector.
The only exception is the external test player, i.e., when I open the .swf directly.

What exactly doesn't work for you?