Keys supported by Flash Lite

In addition to the alphanumeric keys available on standard telephones, most mobile devices feature a five-way keypad, which let users navigate and select items on the device's display as well as the Left and Right soft keys. A device's soft keys are multifunctional keys that use the device's display to identify their purpose at any moment.

The five-way keypad has four arrow keys (Up, Down, Left, and Right) and a Select key, which are typically located at the center of the keypad. Different applications can use these keys as they choose. For example, in a Flash Lite game, the user might press the arrow keys to move a character on the screen, and then press the Select key to perform another action, such as make the character jump.

Flash Lite supports the following keys on mobile devices:

Five-way keypad keys (Up, Down, Left, Right, and Select)
Left and Right soft keys
0-9, *, and # keys

The following images show these keys on a generic keypad and on an actual phone:

Not all devices and Flash Lite content types support all these keys. For example, on some devices, a Flash Lite application can access only the Up and Down arrow keys, not the Left and Right arrow keys. Also, not all devices and content types allow Flash applications to access the Left and Right soft keys. When you test your application in Adobe Device Central, you receive warning messages when you press keys that aren't available on the target device and content type.

Flash CS3