249869 - Keyboard input ignored while running Flash applet

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Damon Gautama]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

If you go to the page I listed above, and play the game, a Flash screen will
come up with directions to the game. Keep clicking along until the game starts.
The normal input expected here are the left and right keys to move the player,
and the space bar to kick. The Flash plugin doesn't seem to be getting any of
these keyboard events, though it does get the left click mouse event to kick.
For reference, this does work in the latest Internet Explorer.

Great browser, though. Thanks for all the good work!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to web site
2. Follow all the steps to play the game
3. Try to move the player with the arrow keys (left and right) and kick with the
space bar. Nothing will happen.
4. Try to kick by clicking the left mouse button. It works.

Actual Results:  
Keyboard input is ignored. Mouse input works.

Expected Results:  
It should have responded to the keyboard input.

Since this site is for the Euro 2004 tournament that just ended, it might now be
up for much longer.

Comment 1

[Anders Pedersen]

Confirmed.

Keyboard input ignored.

- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040708
Firefox/0.9.0+
- Shockwave Flash 7.0 r19
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Pro 5.00.2195 SP4

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78414 ***

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

This does not look like bug 78414 at all. That is about the application
shortcuts not working, which I don't think is the same as the regular keyboard
keys not working. The reason the application keys don't work is because the
plugin has focus and catches them, which should not prevent the regular keys
from being caught.

In other words, bug 78414 is about Firefox not catching the keys, this one is
about the flash applet not catching the keys. This works fine in IE so I am
assuming it is a Mozilla issue. Moving to Browser since it is a core bug.

Comment 4

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Maybe related to issues described in bug 257488.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Probably fixed by bug 257488, but the original testcase is now gone.