# KEY\_DOWN event not firing while holding control

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/key-down-event-not-firing-while-holding-control/625489>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 21, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/key-down-event-not-firing-while-holding-control/625489 "2015-04-21T15:58:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![cakepizza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/45deac/32.png) [@cakepizza](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cakepizza)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/key-down-event-not-firing-while-holding-control/625489/1 "2015-04-21T15:58:47Z")

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While holding control key, the KeyboardEvent.KEY\_DOWN event does not fire. Anyone know what the issue could be?

```
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, keyPressed);
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP, keyReleased);
 function keyPressed(evt:KeyboardEvent):void {
trace("down:"+evt.keyCode);
}

 function keyReleased(evt:KeyboardEvent):void {
trace("up:"+evt.keyCode);
}

```

With the code above, if I press and hold control, and then repeatedly keep pushing the v key, all I get traced out is this a single time.  
down:17  
up:86