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Developing Flash Lite 1.x Applications > Creating Interactivity and Navigation > Handling key events > Writing a key handler script

Writing a key handler script

To handle a keypress event, you attach an on(keyPress "key") handler to a button instance, where key is a supported key event name. For example, the following code, attached to a button instance on the Stage, executes when the user presses the Right Arrow key on their device:

on(keyPress "<Right>") {
    trace("You pressed the right arrow key");
}

The following table lists the ActionScript keypress event that Flash Lite generates in response to the user pressing a key on the device:

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