I'm trying to convert some Flex code to Royale. In particular, I'd like to add a keyDown listener to a component in MXML so I can listen to special keys like Esc, but there doesn't seem to be any [Event] metadata for keyboard events on UIBase. I see that there is [Event] metadata for mouse events, though.
Maybe I've missed it, but there also doesn't even seem to be a bead that can somehow allow me to add a keyDown listener in MXML either. I found DispatchKeyboardEventBead, but it seems to dispatch the event on the strand, which would require me to manually call addEventListener() in AS3 instead, which is pretty complicated because I would need to listen to some other event in MXML first, like initialize or whatever. Both mouse and keyboard feel to me like pretty fundamental forms of user input. With that in mind, if PAYG is the justification for not exposing keyboard events, I'm not sure how the same justification doesn't apply to mouse events. On the other hand, if it's something that actually should be exposed without beads, and it simply hasn't been a priority yet, then I hope someone can help me add it. I tried my best to figure out how Royale MouseEvents get converted from HTML/JS mouse events, to see if I could do something similar with keyboard events, but it wasn't clear to me where the lowest level listeners were being added for things like mousedown/mouseup/mousemove/etc. -- Josh Tynjala Bowler Hat LLC <https://bowlerhat.dev>
