Directional keys ignored on shockwave-flash app

[Dan63043]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

firefox:
  Installed: 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Candidate: 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

On page: http://bionicle.lego.com/en-US/games/hahligame.aspx
(press three successive green arrow buttons after page loads to get to the problem)
The character should move in response to keyboard directional arrows, but doesn't.
Hovering with mouse or clicking in app screen area doesn't affect results.

Works in Windows Xp.

The future of Western Civilization hangs in the balance (for my 6 year old.)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Nov 28 22:47:56 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-22-generic i686

[Trey Brown (trey.brown)]

Have you tried clicking inside the game area on the site once loaded? I loaded the site and was able to play with an up to date system. I am marking the bug imcomplete for now.

[Dan63043 (junk63043)]

Yes, I have tried clicking and hovering over the game area. I'm upgraded to the latest and greatest, too.

If there's some why to kick-out some tracing of the keystroke processing, maybe that would help. It doesn't seem that flash gets anything from typing, but the mouse definitely determines the context, because as soon as I click outside the game area, the directional keys move the page up and down.

I notice that this "Add a comment/attachment" text window is frequently hanging as I type. This is just an HTML form, right?

I wonder if there's something keyboard-related connecting the two behaviors.

I had to do some gyrations to get pulse audio so that it doesn't crash youtube (at least, it doesn't crash as frequently.) That's the only customization that I can think of.

[etali (etali)]

Is this still an issue in newer versions of Ubuntu? Thanks.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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