Interaction With The Key Board: Moving Something With Arrow Keys
How can you program in flash so that you can use the arrow keys to control where an object moves (like a game). If you can help me, please give me an explaination of what you are doing because I am not ery good a flash. My flash version is Flash MX 2004.
Thanx everybody!
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Posted on: 06-23-2005, 04:49 AM
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