Disabling keyboard navigation on the List control in Flex

In a previous example, “Disabling keyboard navigation on the Accordion container in Flex”, we saw how to disabe keyboard navigation on the Flex Accordion container by overriding the keyDownHandler() method.

The following example shows how you can disable keyboard navigation on the Flex List control by extending the List class and overriding the protected keyDownHandler() method.

Full code after the jump.

View MXML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/06/11/disabling-keyboard-navigation-on-the-list-control-in-flex/ -->
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
        xmlns:comps="comps.*"
        layout="vertical"
        verticalAlign="middle"
        backgroundColor="white">

    <mx:Array id="arr">
        <mx:Object label="One" />
        <mx:Object label="Two" />
        <mx:Object label="Three" />
        <mx:Object label="Four" />
        <mx:Object label="Five" />
        <mx:Object label="Six" />
        <mx:Object label="Seven" />
        <mx:Object label="Eight" />
        <mx:Object label="Nine" />
    </mx:Array>

    <comps:MyList id="list"
            dataProvider="{arr}"
            width="100" />

</mx:Application>

comps/MyList.as

/**
 * http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/06/11/disabling-keyboard-navigation-on-the-list-control-in-flex/
 */
package comps {
    import flash.events.KeyboardEvent;
    import mx.controls.List;

    public class MyList extends List {
        public function MyList() {
            super();
        }

        override protected function keyDownHandler(event:KeyboardEvent):void {
        }
    }
}

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