Weird onRelease behaviour

[geretti]

Hi,

I am developing an application that has intense use of hotkeys. It always worked well, but I recently found out there is an issue with the onRelease method. You know the CTRL + drag in windows to choose multiple files? Well it worked perfectly since a few days ago when I discovered that the onRelease gets called without actually releasing the mouse button if a Keyboard button is pressed. Download the file and compile it in Flash 8 and you'll see what I mean.

http://www.geretti.com/help/weird.fla

Let me know what you think, Thanks for trying!

[geretti]

It is a strange behaviour because a second ago it happened on the version online and now it doesnt happen anymore.
If you try http://www.geretti.com/help/weird.swf it works just fine, if you compile it it doesnt.

It's not just a problem that occurs within the flash 8 editor, but it happens online too of course. But the weird.swf doesnt have that issue when used online or outside flash 8. I tried this on several different computers and connections, but not on MAC environment

[geretti]

Another example can be found on
http://www.geretti.com/help/desktop.fla - compile it locally and dragging with the key down constantly loses focus of the selection and recreates the box.
http://www.geretti.com/help/desktop.swf - works fine, but again another thing i've done online (no keylisteners, totally clean) has the same issue.

[kglad]

are you testing in the flash test environment? if so, are you disabling keyboard shortcuts?

[geretti]

Yep, i guess it was that simple!
I came up with this post because of a strange behaviour I later discovered to be caused by a misplaced callback in another application... made me nuts!

anyway thanks!

[kglad]

you're welcome.