RE: FLASH: Interesting Idea , it its possible

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 10:22 AM 11/18/1999 , you wrote:

>No what I mean is simulate a key press.. so that Flash "thinks" the user

>pressed a key mean while the flash programmer/designer actually sent the

>key sequence to the movie.. like on the yugop site they have the

>keyboard and then you can click on other users messages and their

>messages are typed out for you... so basically how do you send a key to

>fla without the user actually pressing the key... so it's a keypress

>sent via actionscript



Why would you need to send a simulated keypress?  Why not just send the 

action that would be associated with the keypress? And if you want a 

graphic of a key being pressed, just put it in a movie clip and use 

TellTarget to make it play.  Or am I missing something?




Marc Hoffman

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