Pause in keyboard echo of characters.

[ericm]

Hello all,

I am looking for a little guidence. I have written a page in which I
am trying to identify when a function key (f1-f12) is pressed. When the
key is pressed a pre-defined event will occur.
I have done this with re-defining document.onKeydown. This works
wonderfully, with one exception.
When the end user is typing in a standard input field, with simple
text, the input will "pause". For example, as I am writting this the
echo of the letters is instant.
With the javascript function checking keystrokes, the page seems to
"pause" the input of standard text.

So my question is this, is there a way to remap, redefine, or simply
assign actions to be performed by the function keys, with out haveing
to check each keystoke?

Any help would be apreciated. Also, if it can't be done with
javascript, perhaps VBscript or ActiveX.

Thanks

[Andrew Scott]

ericm wrote:

Hello all,

I am looking for a little guidence. I have written a page in which I
am trying to identify when a function key (f1-f12) is pressed. When the
key is pressed a pre-defined event will occur.
I have done this with re-defining document.onKeydown. This works
wonderfully, with one exception.
When the end user is typing in a standard input field, with simple
text, the input will "pause". For example, as I am writting this the
echo of the letters is instant.
With the javascript function checking keystrokes, the page seems to
"pause" the input of standard text.

So my question is this, is there a way to remap, redefine, or simply
assign actions to be performed by the function keys, with out haveing
to check each keystoke?

Any help would be apreciated. Also, if it can't be done with
javascript, perhaps VBscript or ActiveX.

Thanks

Why not disable the checking when the input field is focused and then
renable it when focus is taken away from the input.

And TBH it's should dwell that much if all you are doing it checking
keyCode in a switch like this

------------ SAMPLE CODE -------------
<textarea onkeydown="KeyPressed()"></textarea>

<script>
function KeyPressed()
{
switch( event.keyCode )
{
case 112: alert("F1"); break;
case 113: alert("F2"); break;
case 114: alert("F3"); break;
case 115: alert("F4"); break;
case 116: alert("F5"); break;
case 117: alert("F6"); break;
case 118: alert("F7"); break;
case 119: alert("F8"); break;
case 120: alert("F9"); break;
case 121: alert("F10"); break;
case 122: alert("F11"); break;
case 123: alert("F12"); break;

}
}

</script>
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And in fact doing this i see no delay what so ever when typing in the
textarea.

HT
Andy