Assigning Keyboard Actions

There is nothing wrong with your H key.
The problem is that if you run the file inside of Flash, the lower case h is trapped by Flash for its own use.
Run the .swf file outside of Flash and replace the trace with displays to a text field and you will see.

This is almost definitely because you are testing inside of Flash CS3, try testing in Flash Player or browser and it should work. For testing in flash just hold down the shift key.

note that i don't have Flash on right now, so I don't know whether it is working, you have to test it yourself.

Maybe try TextEvent?

import flash.events.TextEvent;

function keyH(event:TextEvent):void
{
var pressedKey:String = event.text;
if (pressedKey== "H")
{outputText.text = "You typed H: " + pressedKey;}
}

entryText.addEventListener(TextEvent.TEXT_INPUT, keyH);

I have two textfields here.you can do it like


import flash.events.TextEvent;

function keyH(event:TextEvent):void
{
var pressedKey:String = event.text;
if (pressedKey== "H"){
trace (pressedKey);
}
}
object.addEventListener(TextEvent.TEXT_INPUT, keyH);