Comments on: No wmode please, we’re British! AKA the @ key flash bug

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:16:45 +0000

I wrote a fix for this in AS2.0 that works 100% for @ email fields:
http://pastebin.com/iBh4fKQB

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:48:46 +0000

This is insane, what the hell does the handling of a wmode have to do with handling keyboard input? How the can they couple those pieces of code? It doesn’t make any sense at all. No wonder this kind of bugs crop up if Firefox or Adobe screws their coding up so bad.

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What’s wrong with Flash’s keyboard mapping? | The Flashchemist — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:11:16 +0000

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By: Steve Jones

Steve Jones — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:53:11 +0000

The wmode bug doesn’t only cause this problem… its actually crashing a large app of ours in Windows Firefox. Remove the wmode setting and all runs sweetly. What a nightmare!

By: olimax

olimax — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:57:29 +0000

Thank you all. This had driven me nuts. Why this bug has not been fixed after so long is a mystery.
I used a simpler version of Kevins workaround. This should be work with Spanish issues as well.

emailbox.onChanged = function(textfield_txt:TextField)
{
var stlen = textfield_txt.text.length;
if(Key.getAscii() == 34 || Key.getAscii() == 64 )
{
textfield_txt.text = textfield_txt.text.substring(0,stlen-1) + “@”;

}
};

By: doctorkhazim

doctorkhazim — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:38:29 +0000

The same erros occurs with Spanish keymapping. You’ll get an “2” when trying to type an @.

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Tråkigaste buggen ever « Locolabs’s Blog — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:14:49 +0000

[...] tvåan så funkar det. Läs även: http://flashmonk.blogspot.com/2007/08/wmode-key-flash-bug.html http://blog.headlondon.com/2006/06/02/no-wmode-please-were-british/ [...]

By: Vicky

Vicky — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:10:51 +0000

In Firefox 3, with wmode=opaque enabled, I am not able to type ‘=’, when I try to type ‘=’ I get ‘+’.

By: Danilo

Danilo — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:43:16 +0000

The problem occurs with Spanish keyboards too.
Still looking for a workaround/fix.

By: Paul Lemon

Paul Lemon — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:36:29 +0000

There is a javascript solution which solves this problem in firefox (but not for Safari/Chrome on a PC)

http://analogcode.com/p/JSTextReader/