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firewahl
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July 11, 2019
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Any keypress event =goto next frame

  • July 11, 2019
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I'm trying to create a keypress event that would give the impression of somebody working on a keyboard and having their document appear onscreen real time as they type. No matter what key they press, they correct letters come up. I have received code to use and have tried snippets but Animate seems buggy (or maybe I am) but it doesn't seem to work.

​Basically I need any key pressed to move the playhead forward:

(snippet)​:

​

​stop();

​stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, fl_KeyboardDownHandler);

function fl_KeyboardDownHandler(event:KeyboardEvent):void

{

nextFrame();

}

​

​(previous script):

​stop();stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, changeSection);

function changeSection(event:KeyboardEvent):void {

nextFrame();

}

​

​nothing occurs.​

​thank you in advance

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    Correct answer kglad

    click the stage with your mouse and then type.  any problems?

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    firewahlAuthor
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    July 30, 2019

    id really like to be able utilize a different method to simulate the typing of this sort of text amount ( i am currently adding one letter to keyframe, I seem to recall being able to add a live text box somewhere and then have it access the embedded text from within the action script:

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    firewahlAuthor
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    July 30, 2019

    I want the playhead to return to the beginning of the animation to reset the scene.

    would you happen to also know of a process that would take each letter of a paragraph and turn them into an object that could be placed into its own keyframe procedurally?

    kglad
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    kgladCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    July 11, 2019

    click the stage with your mouse and then type.  any problems?

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    firewahlAuthor
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    July 11, 2019

    nothing comes up

    kglad
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    kgladCommunity Expert
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    July 11, 2019

    what do you mean by 'nothing comes up'?  you're not going to see anything unless you have a multiframe main timeline with different content in each frame.

    if you want the text to appear in a textfield, you must create the textfield and the code to add text to it:

    stop();

    var alphaS:String="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";

    var tf:TextField=new TextField();

    addChild(tf);

    stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, fl_KeyboardDownHandler);

    function fl_KeyboardDownHandler(event:KeyboardEvent):void

    {

    tf.appendText(alphaS.charAt(event.charCode-97));   // this will get you started with lowercase letters.

    }

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