Educational Gaming Commons - Press Start

Short article on how to manage rapid keyboard actions in Flash (Actionscript 3). The developer suggests developing an array to store keyboard events in case the action comes a bit too fast.

http://www.axelscript.com/2008/02/29/keyboardmanagement-for-games-in-act...

While I'm at it, I can post some other articles on programming keyboard events in Flash

• http://tutorials.flashmymind.com/2009/02/actionscript-3-keyboard-events/
  Also lets you determine key numbers (e.g. A = 65, B = 66)
• http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/as3keyboard/
• http://www.flashessential.com/archives/80

Note: Adding keyboard events can enhance accessibility for motion impaired users since they don't need to manage the mouse so precisely.