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Trap explorer's special key combinations

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almoes

almoes

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Jan 8, 2003
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Hi!

I have an html page and would like to trap the explorer's special key combinations, such as Fx or CTRL-x. I tried the following with no luck:

<body onKeyPress="trapKeys()">
<script>
function trapKeys() {

alert("key "+String(window.event.keyCode));
window.event.returnValue = false;
}
</script>

...

Anybody ever tried this?
thanxs,
alej
 
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Your code works perfectly if you switch from using onKeyPress to using onKeyDown.

Cheers,
Jeff
 
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Hey cool! now I can trap the keys, however for the Fx I can't avoid the execution of the default behavior. Is it

window.event.returnValue = false;

not working for these keys? thanxs!
cheers,
alej
 
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almoes said:
I have an html page and would like to trap the explorer's special key combinations
Click to expand...

You didn't mention that was what you wanted to do in your initial post. I don't think you can do that (for the likes of the function keys at least). I thought you wanted to get the codes for some other use.

Hmmm... can you change the code maybe? If so you could change the function key codes to, say, a return key code. Just a thought.

Jeff
 
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Right, did not say what I wanted to do...just had the other code line.
Good idea, I will try it now.

cheers,
alej
 
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I tried setting

window.event.keyCode=0

but it doesn't work :-[ any ideas?

cheers,
alej
 
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I tried

window.event.returnValue = false;
and
window.event.cancelBubble = true;

but it doesn't work. :-[

cheers,
alej
 
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When I said return false, I meant return false, not set window.event.return to false ;o)

Try returning false:

Code: 
return false;

or

Code: 
return(false);

from your event handler and see if that works.

Dan
 
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But there's no event handler...that's what I tried to do in first place but I can only trap it when 'onKeyDown' and then run a process. I could not find any window event handler.

alej
 
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What event handler? You've lost me completely. I haven't mentioned anythiing about an event handler.

All I want to know is, have you tried modifying your trapKeys() function to have the following:

Code: 
return(false);

instead of what you showed above:

Code: 
window.event.returnValue = false;

I don't think I can make myself any clearer than that.

Hope this helps,
Dan
 
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Ok, got it now. Tried it but it still doesn't work :-[

cheers,
alej
 
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