# Key.isDown **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [April 16, 2003, 11:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/key-isdown/18402 "2003-04-16T11:12:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Voetsjoeba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ac91a4/32.png) [@Voetsjoeba](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Voetsjoeba)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 11:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/key-isdown/18402/1 "2003-04-16T11:12:27Z")
How can you use [AS]if (Key.isDown(key.up))[/AS] but instead of key.up, i want to use the letter [COLOR=red]a[/COLOR]. How do i do that, i tried out a lot of thiçngs but it doesn’t seem to work … (now yr’all thinking, noooooooob) 🙂 voetsjoeba ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 11:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/key-isdown/18402/2 "2003-04-16T11:45:36Z")
If you look in the flash actionscript help thing, you should find numbers which represent letters. I think a is like 67, but if you try and find it in the help file, it’ll tell you. I think theres anotehr way but thats the only i know 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 12:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/key-isdown/18402/3 "2003-04-16T12:44:48Z")
see [http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=500](http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=500) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/key-isdown/18402/4 "2003-04-16T13:42:25Z")
Thx …