# Movie not trapping key presses?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-not-trapping-key-presses/267576>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 3, 2008, 5:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-not-trapping-key-presses/267576 "2008-08-03T05:27:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![tibberous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@tibberous](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tibberous)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2008, 5:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-not-trapping-key-presses/267576/1 "2008-08-03T05:27:34Z")

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My flash movie doesn’t seem to be catching key presses. It ignores them, and I can actually see the editor behind the movie change. Is there a way to ‘focus’ the movie?