VBoxes don't get focus so they don't dispatch key events. Their children might if they are IFocusManagerComponents.
________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Barrett Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:52 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Can't get keyboard events on a Repeater child? Should I be able to add an event listener to a child of a Repeater class and receive keyboard events? I'm trying this and it doesn't seem to be working. Specifically, I have the following MXML: <mx:Canvas width="100%" height="100%" id="browserCanvas" horizontalScrollPolicy="off" verticalScrollPolicy="off"> <mx:Repeater id="menuPageRepeater" dataProvider="{menuPageArray}"> <mx:VBox id="menuPages" styleName="menuPage" width="100%" height="100%" visible="false"> ... other stuff .. </mx:VBox> </mx:Repeater> </mx:Canvas> Elsewhere, "menuPageArray" is defined as a [Bindable] array, and it correctly creates a number of overlapping pages, all of which are initially invisible. In my "applicationComplete" function I set the first of the pages to be visible, and register to receive keyboard events: menuPages[0].visible = true; menuPages[0].addEventListener( "keyDown", onKeyDown ); However, onKeyDown doesn't seem to ever get called. At first I thought "Maybe it's because menuPages[0] is at the bottom of the canvas and some other invisible page is getting the keyboard events", but that doesn't seem to be the case -- even if I make the last page visible and add a listener to it, the same result (no events). Then I was thinking "Maybe the <mx:Canvas> is eating and suppressing all the keyboard events from bubbling up", but that doesn't seem to be the case because I can add a listener to the "stage" and it gets the events just fine. So now I'm wondering if it has something to do with the fact that the node is being created by a <mx:Repeater>? Basically, do you see anything obvious (to you) that I'm doing wrong -- possibly involving repeaters -- or have any tips for how to capture keyboard events on a repeated node? Thanks! -david