Re: key pressed?

You mean that, although the window containing the ming applet has the
focus (i.e., is active, as indicated by the titlebar color), the applet
itself doesn't?

-Laurent

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 08:38:19 -0700 (PDT), gaz b wrote:

> 
> I think that is quite standard behaviour. 
> It is just the way that windows handles which
> application has focus at any one time.
> People sometimes use a "Start" button or similar to
> force the user to click on the movie and give it
> focus.
> gazb
> 
> --- Laurent Cocea <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi all-
> > 
> > I am using ming-dev and I added a key listener to
> > may main timeline
> > actionscript (see code below). Surprisingly, I need
> > to click once in the
> > browser window running the applet for the thing to
> > work, even if the
> > window is already active. Same thing if I click on
> > another window, and
> > then I get back to my ming applet window -- I need
> > to click once inside
> > the window to get the key lister working again. I
> > would have expected
> > this step to be unnecessary. Am I missing something?
> > 
> > Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > -Laurent
> > 
> > 
> > listenForKey = new Object();
> > listenForKey.onKeyDown = function() {
> >   if (key.getCode() == 33) {
> >     _root.myKey = 'PAGEUP';
> >   }                    
> > };
> > listenForKey.onKeyUp = function() {
> >   _root.myKey = '';
> > };
> > Key.addListener(listenForKey);";