dynamic keyboard-event

Sprites don't respond well to the keyboard event, as I mentioned before, you'll have to add the keyboard event listener to the stage, that's pretty much the only option. Sure things will trace everytime you press a key, so you'll need to code it so that actions happen when a key is down and an object is focused. Try this:

import flash.display.*

private var keyIsDown;

private function mausMarkiert(n)
{
n.currentTarget.alpha = 1;
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN,reportKey);
}

private function reportKey(e:KeyboardEvent){
trace(e.keyCode);
keyIsDown = e.keyCode;
}

After you load flash and click on the stage, it will tell you what key is pressed. After this, you'll need to add code that listens for a Focus Event.

myButton.addEventListener(FocusEvent.FOCUS_IN,doSomething);

private function doSomething(e:FocusEvent){
if(e.target == myButton){
if(keyIsDown == keyIwant){
//do something.
}
}
}

Cheers,
FlashTastic

so well. i've try it and it doesn't work and that make's me sad.

so i will explain what's on my monitor and what's happaning and what i want to do.
1) monitor
i've a container (a for example) with an container (b) and a container (c). container (c) is my butten, and in it i have a big sqare and some text.
2) what's happaning
++ when flash loaded everything and i move my mouse around whithaut pressing it anywhere and after this i press a letter ... nothing
++ when i pressed the mouse on anywhere exept (c) and after this a letter ... nothing
++ when i pressed the mouse in (c), but not the text, and after this a letter ... nothing (and this nothing is bad)
++ when i pressed the mouse in the text on (c) and after this a letter ... i get a trace with the letter and it's character code (like in the "f1"-help-example) --- but when i pressed with the courser anything else after this eccept the text in (c) and use my keyboard, again nothing happaned.
++++ this is the effect when i type

b.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, reportKeyDown);

in a function for my "mouse over (c)" and it's also the effect when i put this line after the first lines like

public class ...
{
public function ...
{
(right here)
}
}

the hole other buttom-stuff like manipulating alpha etc is working - so the funcions and events are working like they should. for me it seems like the is the need of something like "fokus" on my (c)-container to become a reaktion for the keypressevent, but i don't know if this is right and when how to do something like that.
3) the final user should be able to, for example, put 5 cookies from the first butten (c) to an other button (c') by drag ond drop (c) over (c') by holding the keyboard-ding "5". so, for this i think i need a mouse over (so that flash knows where the cookies come from), a keyevent and after this a mousemoouveevent.

until now the user is not able to use the keyboard because i have no code for it.

thank's for reading and for any, maybe, help

Oh, sorry. I didn't notice your code was in an external class. You'll have to import the stage as well.

import flash.display.Stage;


Cheers,
FlashTastic

You need to add the event listener to the stage instead of the sprite

stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN,reportKeyDown);

function reportKeyDown(e:KeyboardEvent){
switch(e.keyCode){
case Keyboard.DOWN: //sprite do something;
break;
case Keyboard.UP: //sprite do something;
break;
default: //default action
}
}

Cheers,
Flashtastic

You have added an EventListener that is calling the reportKeyDown function but I see no reportKeyDown() defined. You would also need:

function reportKeyDown(event:Event):void {
trace('entered reportKeyDown');
}

Hope that helps,
Dan