catching keypress in canvas tag

James Black · Jun 22, 2006

I am trying to catch keypresses in my canvas tag, but it appears that
that is not valid.

I may try to just create a hidden input box that will allow me to catch
keypresses.

I am trying to write a very simple asteroids game for a presentation on
Ajax in July, to show that javascript can do more than it was able to a
couple of years ago.

I would like to maneuver the ship by using arrow keys.

Thanx for any suggestions.

James Black · Jun 23, 2006

Tony said:
I've had no problem with onkeydown attached to the <body>

I didn't think about putting it in the body tag. I tried it, and it
solved my problem.

For my game you can look at
http://dante.acomp.usf.edu:9090/asteroids/asteroids.html

It is very basic right now, but it works on Firefox 1.5, and will serve
as the start of my presentation.

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