How to detect if the delete key was pressed in Actionscript 3?

Question

How do I determine if the delete key was pressed using actionscript?

addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP, onKeyUp);

...

function onKeyUp(event:KeyboardEvent):void
{
    trace(event.keyCode);
}

The above code yields no value when delete, backspace, enter, and other command keys are pressed. However, arrow keys do yield values.

Answer 1

Just guessing you are using the TEXT_INPUT event, this doesn't work for delete and backspace. To catch those ones you can add an eventListener on the stage and listen to a KeyboardEvent.

Answer 2

Code will work fine if the display object that you attached the listener is in focus. For global listening, as Theo said, you have to attach the listener to the stage. Accessing stage from an object that's not yet added to the display list will result in null error. Do it in the ADDED_TO_STAGE event handler to be safe.

Answer 3

this.stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, onKeyPressed);
....

function onKeyPressed(event:KeyboardEvent):void
{
   if (event.keyCode==Keyboard.DELETE) {
       .....
       }

}

it's workin nice... But if you test movie from Flash, it will not work, so export to swf and test....