Displaying Character Codes in Flex

If you are capturing keyboard events and want to display the Character Code as Text all you need to do is use String.fromCharCode( …charCodes ) as in the following:

private function  keyDownHandler(event:KeyboardEvent):void

{

textInput.text = String.fromCharCode( event.keyCode );

}

 

Don’t you just love searching and searching for something that should be real simple and then feel like this:

 

 

Tags: Character+Codes

Comments

[markz]

Hi,

Thanks for the hint, although I used charCode instead of keyCode since it seems to fit the syntax.