Text in flash?

Hello!
Refering to my other thread "Actionscript 3 game problem" - http://forums.adobe.com/thread/740284?tstart=0
Here I want to ask about inputting text in a flash file.
Not the type where you choose the text tool and type in what ever text you want.
I want to create a dynamic textfield which allows the user to input text whilst running the flash-file.
I'll shortly explain the "idea".
Right now, I have my main game screen, a corridor.
In this corridor you can move around, though, only 1 step back & forth.
If you click one of the nine doors in the corridor you approach it with an animation.
This animation is done in a movieclip.
Within this animated movieclip, I have created the room where the user gets to "using" the door.
In the first room, the task is to type in the alphabet in correct order using the keyboard.
I am now wondering, how do I create this text field to be able to input text when running the game?
Thanks in advance!

Well.
Since I am quite new to programming and I just recently learned to allow keyboardevents I only learned how to create listeners for "case" keys.
Like case 37,38,39,40.
With a code approx. like this:
function keyDownHandler(e:KeyboardEvent):void
     switch(e.keyCode)
          case 37:
          case 38:
          case 39:
and so on.
Is there any other way of creating this with a more lean code, yet only allowing the keys A-Z (or in my case) A-Ö(swedish keyboard/alphabet)?

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