Handling Keyboard Events

Question

Hi:
Below is an Air application in which I am trying to catch keyboard events.
I do catch it once. Subsequently when I try to catch the events, sometimes I must click on the canvas
to refocus. Sometimes even this does not work. When I choose an option in DropDown list then the handler
also stops working. Is there something missing in my envent Handler?
Please advise and thanks for reading and helping.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"layout="absolute" windowComplete="windowComplete();"> <mx:ApplicationControlBar id="dockedBar" dock="true" paddingLeft="0" paddingRight="0"> <mx:ComboBox dataProvider="{stats}" id="statsC" change="statsChangeEvt(event)" /></mx:ApplicationControlBar>
<mx:Array id="stats"> <mx:Object label="Option 1"/> <mx:Object label="Option 2"/></mx:Array><mx:Script> <![CDATA[ import mx.controls.Alert; private function windowComplete():void{stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, handleKeyDown);} public function handleKeyDown(event:KeyboardEvent) :void{Alert.show("Key pressed");} private function statsChangeEvt(event:Event):void { Alert.show("Stats Changed")};]]></mx:Script> </mx:WindowedApplication>

Answer 1

Try listening to the keyDown event in the capture phase.
addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, handleKeyDown, true).
ComboBox stops the propogation of the event if it is something that it handles. This is why you don't get it in the bubble phase.
Jason