Bug report about focus and a feature request

[retsea]

Noticed that in every MMF created swf, the keys keep stuck down when loosing focus from the flash object in a browser window. This is the most frustrating when using movements created in the event editor,as the keys stuck down and the only way to get the character to move in another direction is to press the same keys again that are stuck down -- some players might not get this!

One way around this I found is to pause the game to get rid of stuck keys, but this is extremely problematic as I am developing a multiplayer game and since the MMF doesn't support detecting if the focus is set on a flash object or not.

So perhaps -- in the next update -- some of the code from pausing the game could be used to reset the stuck down keys when setting focus outside from the flash object?

I am also requesting for a feature for the Flash Player-extension to detect if the focus has been set on a flash object or not.

Thank you!

[LB]

Nobody else is getting this issue. Could you post an example with instruction how you are doing this?

[retsea]

Why "nobody else?" -This bug was found by my friend who uses firefox to my knowledge, I also am able to reproduce this problem (I am using Chrome).

Here's how to do it with some of the examples on the clickteam's example page:

With gracillis keep left/right arrow button down at the same time when clicking browser address bar, release the key and you can see the space ship continues to move to the direction you pressed. When you set focus back to the flash game, the space ship still continues to move and you can't even move to the opposite direction until you press the button that's being stuck.

With the Gem fusion you will get this same problem if you press button 'ARROW DOWN' when you lose the focus from the flash game.

With Chicken wings you can get this problem when pressing UP/DOWN arrow and losing the focus from the flash game.

I already noticed this with the Zeb-example back when the SWF exporter was still in-early-steps.

[RickyRombo]

LB you said yourself that in RickyG's game you couldn't stop moving right away... why are you saying that nobody else is having issues?

[retsea]

I hope this will be noticed by the mods too...

Also remember my request for focus detection features for the Flash Player-plugin.