Solving the wmode keyboard bug in Firefox (AS3)

The Firefox team has embarrasingly been saying (for years) that they are working on solving their problems with keyboard focus on embedded flash objects with wmode set to either 'transparent' or 'opaque'.

See details:
http://forum.sephiroth.it/showthread.php?t=9232
http://timconfessions.blogspot.com/2008/04/firefox-wmodetransparent-bug.html
http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/webkit-unassigned/2008-September/084474.html

The list goes on and hopes are low. There has been some dirty quickfixes circulating but I grew tired and wrote a more robust solution for AS3.

Embed the following in your class, assign it to your inputField and... enjoy.

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 0)? input.text.substring(input.selectionEndIndex, input.text.length) : "";

     // Enter the codes to change here
     // Below is Swedish keyboard
     switch (event.text)
     {
      case "2" : event.text = "@"; break;
      case "3" : event.text = "£"; break;
      case "4" : event.text = "$"; break;
      case "5" : event.text = "€"; break;
      case "6" : event.text = "6"; break;
      case "7" : event.text = "{"; break;
      case "8" : event.text = "["; break;
      case "9" : event.text = "]"; break;
      case "0" : event.text = "}"; break;
      case "+" : event.text = "\\"; break;
      case "<" : event.text = "|"; break;
      default : break;                     
     }

     input.text = startText + event.text + endText;
     input.setSelection(input.selectionBeginIndex + 1, input.selectionBeginIndex + 1);
    }
    catch (error:Error)
    {
     trace(error.getStackTrace());
    }
   }
  }
 }
}