# Movement with keypress

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movement-with-keypress/103194
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [March 2, 2004, 9:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movement-with-keypress/103194 "2004-03-02T21:58:28Z")
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### Author: ![laxinlucy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@laxinlucy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/laxinlucy)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 9:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movement-with-keypress/103194/1 "2004-03-02T21:58:28Z")

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I’m new at flash and I can’t get a character to move left and right when the left and right arrow keys are pressed without having the whole window scroll. I couldn’t find anything in the tutorials, so if anyone can help me, I would appreciate it.