# Keyboard Listener won't listen?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keyboard-listener-wont-listen/283531>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 7, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keyboard-listener-wont-listen/283531 "2009-03-07T16:29:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![relinquished](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@relinquished](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/relinquished)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keyboard-listener-wont-listen/283531/1 "2009-03-07T16:29:25Z")

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Hello,

I’m having a bit of trouble with the keyboardEvent.KEY\_DOWN event listener. I’m not getting any errors, flash seems to be just ignoring that listener altogether. I’ll paste my code below, if anyone could help, that’d be great!

```auto

package
{
	import flash.display.MovieClip
	import flash.events.*
	public class hotAirBalloon extends MovieClip
	{
		public function hotAirBalloon()
		{
			this.y = 300
			this.x = 80
			this.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN,keyboardListener)
		}
		private function keyboardListener(event:KeyboardEvent)
		{
			trace(event.keyCode)
		}
	}
}

```