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Sadly no, there is no key.IsDown property in as3. You need to make your own. Basically you set some event listeners that detect when keys get pushed or lifted, you make a Boolean for each key and you turn it on when the player pushes the key and turn it off when he lifts it.
I used this tutorial and it works, but he does some... weird things. I would do some google searches before if I were you.

I use a set of booleans.

I have a keydown function where i use a keycode method to check if a key is down and if it is then i change a boolean to (the key) isdown=true

Then in a keyup function i have (the key) isdown=false

then in an enter frame function, i check
[quote]
if (the key) isdown == true)
{
movieclip.x += (direction
}

oh, that makes sense. Thanks

stijn: I believe this is AS2, the on(function) stuff was removed in AS3.

Other than that: when I need to, I usually use something along the lines of master's implementation. Works like a charm!

Cheers!