Everyone please star this Chromium bug

Lightnin

Chromium has had a bad bug for a while that causes the browser to get keypresses even when Flash has focus.

Everytime I go to play a game in Scratch 2.0, I hit the space bar and the page scrolls down, hiding the flash player. It's maddening! :O

Been around for a long time, but for some reason, hasn't been fixed. If you don't mind, please click the star next to this bug, to see if it'll get a little attention from the Chromium devs.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=49218

Wes64

i would star it even though i dont use chromium, but i don't know how

GameHutSoftware

How?

nXIII

GameHutSoftware
How?

Lightnin
click the star next to this bug

Last edited by nXIII (Dec. 21, 2012 20:29:37)

Wes64

i see no stars.

nXIII

Are you logged into your Google account?

Wes64

for some reason it wasn't recognizing i was signed in on that page. oh well, there we go

MathWizz

Starred! Also, I reported this not too long ago.

Hardmath123

Done.

Lightnin

Thanks everyone!

stevetheipad

159 people starred this issue….should get some attention.

MathWizz

While this is being fix couldn't you catch and cancel the space press event in JavaScript?

This code seems to work great:

var flashFocused = false;
Scratch.FlashApp.ASobj.addEventListener('focus', function(e) {
    flashFocused = true;
}, false);
Scratch.FlashApp.ASobj.addEventListener('blur', function(e) {
    flashFocused = false;
}, false);
document.addEventListener('keypress', function (e) {
    if (flashFocused) {
        e.preventDefault();
    }
}, false);

Last edited by MathWizz (Dec. 22, 2012 13:14:05)

Lightnin

MathWizz
While this is being fix couldn't you catch and cancel the space press event in JavaScript?

This code seems to work great:

var flashFocused = false;
Scratch.FlashApp.ASobj.addEventListener('focus', function(e) {
    flashFocused = true;
}, false);
Scratch.FlashApp.ASobj.addEventListener('blur', function(e) {
    flashFocused = false;
}, false);
document.addEventListener('keypress', function (e) {
    if (flashFocused) {
        e.preventDefault();
    }
}, false);

Awesome! It works for me as well when I paste that into the console. Can you put this in a comment on the bug, and mention that it seems to work to address the problem?

http://mv.ezproxy.com.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/issues/62

Last edited by Lightnin (Dec. 22, 2012 15:29:30)

MathWizz

@Lightnin - Done.

Lightnin

MathWizz
@Lightnin - Done.

Great! By the way - any extra useful info you can gather on existing bugs would be helpful. So don't hesitate to add that info onto the issue in a comment. That way when the devs get to it, they'll have more info and it'll be easier to fix.

Mokat

I would star it, unfortunately I don't use Chromium.

nXIII

Mokat
I would star it, unfortunately I don't use Chromium.

You don't have to use Chromium to star it; you can just help it get attention.

stickdude123

I've noticed that too, Maybe it's due to that HTML5 doesn't like locking the spacebar's scroll, Gets somewhat annoying.

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