"pwiop" <paul@nswiop.nsw.edu.au> wrote in message
news:dde2ba$fkg$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> It would be a reasonably simple task to create a keyboard that generate
> strings
> (the letters you type) and add them to a variable
>
> create buttons as letters in the alhphabet, name them butA, butB etc then
> on
> the first frame ad the following code (adapt for each button of course)
>
> var myString ="" //initially set the string to null
>
> butA.onRelease=function(){
> myString+="a"
> trace(myString)
> }
> butSpace.onRelease=function(){ // add a space
> myString+=" "
> trace(myString)
> }
>
> This is not very sophisticated so yoiud need to tart it up a little
>