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"I am a bonafide (teehee) genius"

Well, I'm building a chat forum for a site that I'm using for my final year project at Uni. It's a very good forum system I've designed and bult from scratch -similar to how this place works. So I thought I'd incorporate an interesting feature - using keyboard keys to jump forums - and it works very well. I haven't put it online yet, but I will do sometime soon.

Basically, I used a tiny Flash module to run javascript commands on a key down (the JS for this is huge and browser dependent). The JavaScript commands then have the required forum ids printed in them by PHP, and the flash keydown jumps you to a different page. Really cool system - you can use the WASD keys to jump up, down and across threads and forums, the Q key to go "home", the E to edit your details, the R to refresh the page, and the number keys to jump to a specific forum.

*chuffed*

I don't know, it's never concerned me. Should be very easy to learn though. Afterall, you are a bona-fide genius :-)

Turbonutter wrote:
> You should just run a small flash movie somewhere and have PHP parse
> out some parameters for each of the keys to pass to it. Better have
> the flash movie include a php page giving its threadid and forumid
> (you should just need the threadid) and parse its output.

This is the only method I've thought of so far. Haven't really learnt how to parse to Flash - does it do it auto?

As for the access keys, I think you need to press shoft or something for them to work. I looked at them before, but decided against it for some reason.

Monkey, it sounds great mate. Let us all try it!

Notorious Biggles wrote:
> Never thought of that. PHP and Javascript are two things I can't do.

I had a go at php once, I downloaded a manual, which was 10mb of text.

That was funny :o)

I followed a few tutorials and stuff but its really easy for my to get distracted. So I floated away and never bothered again.

And its difficult :o)

You could have just used Access keys to do that, which is supported on most browsers, and you wouldn't need all the Flash and Javascript, which would make it more accessible too!

You should just run a small flash movie somewhere and have PHP parse out some parameters for each of the keys to pass to it. Better have the flash movie include a php page giving its threadid and forumid (you should just need the threadid) and parse its output.

Never thought of that. PHP and Javascript are two things I can't do.

It wouldn't work here because the forum id numbers are so erratic - what ever happened to counting? Although it would really work with an extra couple of bits added on.

Go over Snuggly's head to Bob and get him to put it in here. I end up using the mouse way to much.

It does sound mighty impressive mind. Well done.

I was making the site before I decided to use it for my major project, and it'll probably be an amalgamation of all the best bits of coding I've ever done.