title: Adobe Flex AIR - detect shift key already down?
body: <p>I want to allow a user to override the persistent configuration flags to automatically start and automatically close when complete. One idiom is to detect the Shift key down on startup.</p>
  
  <p>How can I detect the shift key down?</p>
  
  <p>I tried adding a keyboard-down event handler in application initialization, but that did not seem to get called at all.</p>