I have a flash application that's being used in other countries. I'm having reports that certain keys from certain keyboards are not getting translated properly.
My application uses a custom "equation editor" that I wrote. I'm using key up and key down handlers to capture key strokes. I can't believe the flash doesn't support character translations out of the box. I know some people out there us a hidden TextField to capture the "translated text", but I really don't want to do there. I suspect that will mess up a lot of my focus code and cursor movement code. Has anyone tackled this another way? One idea I had was to somehow come up with a keyboard mapping application, that would require the user to "learn" the keys. I would then store some sort of a lookup table inside a shared object. I'm not sure what the interface would look like, but it's an idea. Any other ideas would be appreciated.
