Question

I am encountering a rather frustrating problem with a chat class I am putting into a game.

Basically this is what is happening:

1) I listen for a KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN for the letter “t”. (“t” brings up team chat)

2) That then calls a class to make an input text field visible (Timeline Created).

3) I then stage.focus to that input text.

All works fine except that the letter “t” is appearing in my input text field.

So, I figured it was capturing the KeyboardEvent and inputting “t”, thus I created an event listener to trigger after the input text field is stage.focus’d to clear that input text field by calling inputText.text = “”;

However, it won’t work, instead of clearing it to “” it just leaves the “t”.

I experimented some more and tried to set inputText.text = “CLEAR” after the focus event.

Something strange happens where after all is said and done, the input text field shows “tCLEAR” with the cursor right after t and when I type in more, it pushes the “CLEAR” to the right.

As far as I know, any text field dynamic or input, if you set it to “”, it should clear it. However in this case its not, its just pushing the “” after the t.

Anyway, I have done a lot of searching, but to no avail.

I even have tried clearing to “” after a TextEvent.TEXT_INPUT and even removed the KeyListener after pressing “t”, still no joy.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You can add event.stopImmediatePropogation() in your KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN handler. Or if this won’t help try using KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP event to capture pressed button with event.stopImmediatePropogation() in its handler.

EDIT

Well, I don’t know why it’s important for you to do exactly that way with key down event. But I can suggest this solution:

1) Add TextEvent.TEXT_INPUT listener to TextField in your key down handler.

2) And in text input handler add event.preventDefault(); and remove TextEvent.TEXT_INPUT listener.

Something like this:

function keyDownHandler(event:KeyboardEvent):void
{
    ...
    stage.focus = tf;
    tf.addEventListener(TextEvent.TEXT_INPUT, tf_textInputHandler);

}

function tf_textInputHandler(event:TextEvent):void
{
    event.preventDefault();
    tf.removeEventListener(TextEvent.TEXT_INPUT, tf_textInputHandler);
}

Where tf is your textField.