Handling key events

In addition to using tab navigation between buttons and input text fields, a Flash Lite application can also respond to arbitrary keypress events.

Not all devices and content types support all device keys. For example, on a device that supports two-way navigation (see Modes of tab navigation) Flash Lite doesn't generate keypress events for the Left and Right Arrow keys.

On all devices, Flash Lite supports the following keys:

0-9, *, and # keys
Select key

On devices that support two-way navigation, Flash Lite also supports the Up and Down Arrow keys on the 5-way keypad. On devices that support four-way navigation, Flash Lite supports the Up, Down, Left, and Right Arrow keys.

On devices that support the SetSoftKeys command, Flash Lite also supports the Left and Right soft keys.

This section contains the following topics:

Writing a key handler script

Creating a key catcher button

Creating a simple menu using movie clips

Flash CS3