Help with left arrow down & right arrow down

[Anthony]

Hi all,

I am creating a presentation in Director MX, and need to program the right
arrow key to advance to next marker, and the left arrow key to go to
previous marker.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks
Anthony

[Rob Dillon]

Hi Anthony,

on keyDown
if the keyCode = 123 then go next
if the keyCode = 124 then go previous
end

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Rob
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[Anthony]

Hi Rob,

Thanks for quick response,

How do I identify what the code for the Right & left arrow keys are?

Thanks
Anthony

"Rob Dillon" <rob@ddg-designs.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Anthony,
>
> on keyDown
> if the keyCode = 123 then go next
> if the keyCode = 124 then go previous
> end
>
> --
> Rob
> _______
> Rob Dillon
> Team Macromedia
> [url]http://www.ddg-designs.com[/url]
> 412-243-9119
>
> [url]http://www.macromedia.com/software/trial/[/url]

[Robert Tweed]

"Anthony" <asquires@sarcmedia.com> wrote in message
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>
> How do I identify what the code for the Right & left arrow keys are?

[url]http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/keycodes.htm[/url]

- Robert

[Anthony]

hi,

Here is the code i typed at the end of first slide:

Holds the slide till action is taken

on exitFrame
go to the frame
end

Checks for key pressed

on keyDown
if the keyCode = 123 then go next
if the keyCode = 124 then go previous
end


I ran the movie, and nothing happend when i pressed right arrow or left
arrow
key. Did not advance to next marker or previous.
What am I doing wrong, seems pretty simple. This is a first time in using
Key Codes for me.

Thanks
Anthony

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Tweed" <robert@killingmoon.com>
Newsgroups: macromedia.director.lingo
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: Help with left arrow down & right arrow down

> "Anthony" <asquires@sarcmedia.com> wrote in message
> news:bjtcg6$cn8$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> >
> > How do I identify what the code for the Right & left arrow keys are?

>
> [url]http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/keycodes.htm[/url]
>
> - Robert
>
>

>

[Robert Tweed]

"Anthony" <asquires@sarcmedia.com> wrote in message
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>
> I ran the movie, and nothing happend when i pressed right arrow or left
> arrow
> key. Did not advance to next marker or previous.
> What am I doing wrong, seems pretty simple. This is a first time in using
> Key Codes for me.

There is nothing wrong with any of the above. Where did you put the code? If
you put it all in your frame script, and span that script across all the
frames in your movie, it should work fine. Other than that, perhaps you have
no markers?

There is definitely nothing wrong with the key script (although the keys
appear to be the wrong way round). If in doubt, try something you know -
i.e., put a mouseDown script in the same place and see if that works.

- Robert

[Robert Tweed]

"Anthony" <asquires@sarcmedia.com> wrote in message
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>
> What am I doing wrong, seems pretty simple.

The only other thing I can think of is that you might have another keyDown
handler that overrides the one you want to work, or you have something like
an editable text field trapping the key events.

- Robert

[hairybobby webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

and if you've forgotten the page robert has posted for keycodes then to check what a keycode for a particular key is then try

on keydown me
put the keycode
end

the result will appear in the message window







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placing the code in the framescript rather than a behavior may be the problem. A ramescript should always capture keys.



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