# Disable keyboard shortcuts

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/disable-keyboard-shortcuts/258497>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 24, 2008, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/disable-keyboard-shortcuts/258497 "2008-04-24T15:33:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![tpann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@tpann](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tpann)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/disable-keyboard-shortcuts/258497/1 "2008-04-24T15:33:10Z")

</div>

Is there any way to disable keyboard shortcuts programmatically, so that I don’t have to select Control\>Disable Keyboard Shortcuts in the .swf file?

Thanks!