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Applauz78
Inspiring
January 25, 2013
Question

listen Keyboard events in AIR for iOS? [HELP]

  • January 25, 2013
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It works in the browser...  Is there any way in AIR to do this for iOS ?

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scotts91413263
Participant
December 15, 2018

Did anyone solve this in any other way ..still having this issue.. seem so trivial and debilitating surprised it's not more documented.

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    Applauz78Author
    Inspiring
    January 25, 2013

    Is there really no way to listen to keyboard events in AIR for IOS from the stage ?

    I need to listen for events from a bluetooth keyboard.

    This seems so basic.  ... 

    Has anyone run in to this issue ?

    Colin Holgate
    Colin Holgate
    Inspiring
    January 25, 2013

    Are you using a Flash textfield, or a native input field (that is, StageText)? If it's the native input field then I don't think there's any hope of an AS3 listener intercepting the value.

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    Applauz78Author
    Inspiring
    January 25, 2013

    Neither.

    This is for a game.  i'm using the iCade. which is basically a bluetooth keyboard. A class was written to handle the listening of the keys.  ie/ 

    stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, onKeyDown, false, 1000);

    stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP, onKeyUp, false, 1000);

    These are ignored in iOS

    So I'm not using a textField.. I was hoping to listen from the stage for the key presses.

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