Making flash recognise what key was pressed - Page 3

Step 2

Now we're all set on the stage and can start writing the actionscript.

Select the first frame in layer 1 (the only frame) and open up the actions window. Here is where all the code will be.

First thing we're going to do is to create a empty function called charcheck with a interval of 200. We'll use this code:

function charcheck() {

  }

var charID; 
charID = setInterval( charcheck, 200 );

Any thing we type inside the function, flash will now execute every 200 milliseconds.

Inside the function we'll enter the code that makes flash recognize what key the user pressed, so we'll add this:

var char
char = chr(Key.getCode());

Now your actions window should look like this: