# Dispatching keyboard events

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dispatching-keyboard-events/292622>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 16, 2009, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dispatching-keyboard-events/292622 "2009-07-16T14:45:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![skyro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@skyro](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/skyro)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2009, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dispatching-keyboard-events/292622/1 "2009-07-16T14:45:57Z")

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Can this be done in AS2?

I have a key.addlistener setup to listen to key events.

What I want to be able to do is to dispatch key events by for example a mouse click or just on load.

Anyone know if it is possible? I’ve tried a lot of possible solutions such as dispatchEvent with type as “onKeyDown” and “keyDown” etc… but key listener simply do not treat it as a keyboard event.

```auto
var eventObj = new Object();
eventObj.type = "keyDown";
eventObj.code = 13;
eventObj.ascii = 'e';
dispatchEvent(eventObj);

```