Any other Adobe professionals wish to actually answer my last question instead of patronize me? I would really appreciate it.
I'd continue to happily use Flash except that the player will be discontinued in 2 years. If I seem cranky it's because the whole thing smacks of the oxymoron "military intelligence". And I am clearly not happy about it…
It's 3 1/4 years, but no harm in being ready!
To explain ClayUUID's code:
window.addEventListener("keydown", keyPressed);
function keyPressed(evt) {
var k = evt.key.toLowerCase();
alert(k);
}
That script could go into frame 1 of your timeline, then whenever the user presses a key that function will be called.
'k' is a variable, it could be any non-reserved word at all, but being k makes you think of 'key'. A longer, easier to understand version could be:
var theKey = evt.key.toLowerCase();
The point of the toLowerCase() is to halve the amount of checking you will need to do. In your application you wouldn't do the alert() at all, instead you would check the key and if it's M or m you would hide or show your menu dialog layer.
So, you would end up with something like this:
var menuShowing = false;
var self = this;
this.menuBtn.addEventListener("click",toggleMenu);
window.addEventListener("keydown", keyPressed);
function keyPressed(evt) {
var theKey = evt.key.toLowerCase();
if(theKey=="m"){
toggleMenu();
}
}
function toggleMenu(){
menuShowing = !menuShowing
self.menuMC.visible = menuShowing;
}
The keyPressed function could check for other things too, like:
function keyPressed(evt) {
var theKey = evt.key.toLowerCase();
if(theKey=="m"){
toggleMenu();
}
if(theKey=="?"){
toggleHelp();
}
}
If you end up with a lot of keys to check you could think about using a case statement instead.
I just typed all that in here, but hopefully it would work, or at least give you an idea on how to solve your original problem.
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