keyboard shortcuts in flash cs6 not working correctly

I had this problem until I deleted a third-party application. This is Punto Switcher, a program for automatically switching between different keyboard layouts. There are other applications for windows. Check if you have something like this.

What a lousy response.  The customer PAID for a product that doesn't work properly and your solution is for him to buy a DIFFERENT product.  You and Adobe should be ashamed at these attitudes and practices.

Hi

Just found the simplest workaround:

1. open a new document in flash and leave it open

2. when you loose the shortcuts just switch from your document to the new one and back: "ctrl + tab"

enjoy 

Are you serious? After coughing up an entire paycheck just to RENT your shitty software for a year and discovering this problem is a huge irritation, your answer is to buy CC? I can't use CC. I can't use it because the studio I'm working for wants files done in CS6. Companies can't just shit out millions for new licenses for 1000+ employees and then ask all of their freelancers who are barely making ends meet to do the same, then have to redo every single asset every time you decide to rake in cash on a new release of a program that would JUST WORK FINE IF YOU PATCHED IT.

This can't be real. When are you patching this problem? The problem is NOT solved, the question is NOT answered. The keyboard shortcuts are essential to keeping up with workflow in Flash and if you're still selling CS6 you should still be supporting the software with BUG FIXES, if not then why else should I have to stay logged into your annoying resource-hogging spyware?  I am livid with Adobe for so many reasons and this just takes the cake. This bug kicks in about 2 minutes into any project and having to hit ctrl+enter and perform any other voodoo required to make them kick in again is seriously annoying.

I am looking forward to the day open source software demolishes your monopoly. Customer loyalty might keep you alive but you've decided you won't be needing that apparently.

The simplest work around for this bug that I have come across is to use the scene panel.

When the hotkeys stop working:

1) Open the scene panel using Shift + f2, or clicking Window > Other Panels > Scene

2) Click within the scene panel (click the scene you are currently on for simplicity). This will make a small blue border appear around the scenes.

3) Click back on your stage

This should fix your hotkeys. Works for me, at least.

I'm also experiencing this (I've so far noticed it while using a Cintiq; whether that's related or not, I don't know). It is triggered by a save (or auto-save), and appears to be an application window/screen refresh issue. From my experience, minimizing the window and then restoring reactivates the shortcuts. It's almost as though the window canvas (work area) is receiving input (the pen/cursor continues to work) but the application window itself is not called to focus by Windows (i.e. the OS itself). Minimizing and restoring the window forces it to "get attention" again. Sometimes, even this is not sufficient, and I have to click in the canvas area after the minimize-restore to get shortcuts working again.

I'm not a programmer, so I may be lay in my description, but it appears somehow related to the application window not receiveng focus (and as such not mapping the keyboard keys to its own commands).

I am having the same issues. For some reason, when I open a new or a saved doc, the keys will work for a few mins, then all of the sudden they will stop working. Sometimes they will start working if I just leave the project alone for about 15 mins. By the way, I am only having this issue with Flash. It happened when I had CS 5 and now it is happening with CS 6. I am running it on a Dell Latitude, Windows 7 (32-bit) 4gb of RAM, and a Intel i5 2.6GHz. I don't know if anyone else noticed that if I close multiple programs that I am using at the same time like Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver or iTunes or Spotify, it seems to help resolve the problem but only sometimes.

Yep, having the same problem here. It always seems to happen whenever I come out of a text field, if that's of any help

I am having the same problem as well! The hotkeys have started working less and less. Even restarting the computer doesn't help anymore. Exporting the swf has worked for me as well, but this is silly.

I'm having the same problem, publishing the SWF does fix it for a while however. This was not an issue in CS5.5, what is causing this? I have tried making a new key mapping profile and it's still happening.

Considering this post is 7 months old and CS 6.5 is not far off, I am concerned these will not be addressed.