New way to make text box with actionscript

[brendanww]

I've been familiarizing myself with some functions that will be useful for new chat features, and I made a different type of textbox in flash:


createEmptyMovieClip("fudge", 0);
fudge.createTextField("dynamictext", getNextHighestDepth(), 0, 0, 300, 300);
fudge.dynamictext.border = true;
fudge.dynamictext.html = true;
keyListener = new Object();
k = 0;
keyListener.onKeyDown = function() {
lastkeycode = Key.getCode();
if (lastkeycode == 8) {
if (k>0) {
k--;
curtext = fudge.dynamictext.text;
newtext = curtext.substring(0, k);
fudge.dynamictext.text = newtext;
}
} else {
k++;
fudge.dynamictext.text = _root.fudge.dynamictext.text+chr(Key.getAscii());
}
};
Key.addListener(keyListener);

[bleepbloop]

what does it do? Which key has a value of 8?

[Headshotz]

Pretty cool :cool:, you used php formatting on your code though, AS:


createEmptyMovieClip("fudge", 0);
fudge.createTextField("dynamictext", getNextHighestDepth(), 0, 0, 300, 300);
fudge.dynamictext.border = true;
fudge.dynamictext.html = true;
keyListener = new Object();
k = 0;
keyListener.onKeyDown = function() {
lastkeycode = Key.getCode();
if (lastkeycode == 8) {
if (k>0) {
k--;
curtext = fudge.dynamictext.text;
newtext = curtext.substring(0, k);
fudge.dynamictext.text = newtext;
}
} else {
k++;
fudge.dynamictext.text = _root.fudge.dynamictext.text+chr(Key.getAscii());
}
};
Key.addListener(keyListener);

[PsychoSpike]

that is a way to make text, but not the best way, (of course you know how)

i was tinkering with key. events too and found that there is no way to use shift with non letters (i mean uppercase and lowercase letter can work) but not for for example "?" which is shift + "," on my keyboard...

any ideas?

[sophistikat]

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00002294.html
var keyListener:Object = new Object();
keyListener.onKeyDown = function() {
trace("The ASCII code for the last key typed is: "+Key.getAscii());
};
Key.addListener(keyListener);1 = 49
Shift = 0
Shift + 1 = 33

[Headshotz]

Thanks for that link :)