I have a TextField called textField on the first frame of the main timeline, and this simple code.
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import flash.events.KeyboardEvent;
import flash.events.FocusEvent;
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can I set the keyboard focus for a TLFTextField? I tried stage.focus = myTLF but there is no cursor...
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when i have this line active(the red one) it gives me automatic focus, so no clicking to be able to detect key input so i got that going for me which is nice BUT when i have it active(not commented out) i get this big yellow line which goes away when i click it(seeBelow)
Does anyone know how to do this in AS3?
View 3 RepliesI'm writing an application using a DataGrid DG1 in a MovieClip MC1. The User can click on DG1 and edit it, ok, no problem. But when the User begins to edit the content of a specific cell of DG1, I want to open a dedicated wizard in front of it. In the first step of that wizard popup (MovieClip MC2, child of MC1), there is another DataGrid (DG2) and I would like the User to be able to directly use the up and down keyboard arrows to browse the DG2 content without having to click it first.
But the keyboard events are then captured by DG1. I tried to use a stage.focus, setFocus, I triggered MouseEvents on DG2 but nothing to do, I have to physically click on it before the keyboard events are sent to it. So, my question is: how to, within MC1, tell Flash the keyboard events will be triggered on DG2 ? Can we ask DG1 to loose the (keyboard) focus ?
found only one thing that seemed to be on the lines of what I am having issues with:
stage.focus = this;
My problem: The the flash app I am working on, some of the controls are done with the keyboard. At certain points, you need to click on an on screen button to continue. When I do this, it seems the focus is lost from where it was, and I can no long use keyboard actions (such as the spacebar KeyboardEvent that works prior to clicking the mouse)
I will admit that I am a newcomer to Flash (only played with it for about a month now), and I don't know much about the focus stuff. Basically, I want to know how to set the focus back to where it was after the buttons are clicked.
There are 5 movieclips on the stage (btn0 to btn4). I wanted to change focus pressing Keyboard.UP and Keyboard.DOWN. But the focus changes not in correct order. It jumps in mysterious way from 0 to 2 and so on.[code]
View 6 RepliesI have a custom TitleWindow component that is registered to listen for keyboard events from the user (so that esc closes the window, enter saves, etc.). However, in my testing I've found a couple cases where my keyboard event handlers don't fire. My best guess as to why this is happening is that there is some child component somewhere that has stolen focus and is stopping the keyboard events from propagating.
Unfortunately, due to the large number of components in my TitleWindow, I have no good way of knowing who has stolen the focus. My question then is, are there any good tips / techniques / tools for debugging focus issues and event propagation in Flex? Basically, I need something that will tell me who has the focus at any given time and who's handling an event at any given time... is that possible?
So i have a combo box that a user can go a select different UI's with. In another pane i have a map that the user can press the arrow keys the move up, down, left right etc.
Only problem is that once i have selected a map from the combo box, the combo box stays in focus so that when i press an arrow key, the map moves but it also scrolls through my combo box.
Any way i can disable keyboard input to the combo box or remove the focus on the combo box?
I've tried creating a dummy button on the stage called "dummy" and when the change event happens on the combo box i switch the focus using
Selection.setFocus("dummy");
but then i get a recursion error and it stops my scripts.
i click on the play button and go to my playscreen. Then I have to click on the playscreen for it to accept keyboard input!
View 11 RepliesWhat would be the appropriate way to add some AS in a flex-project, giving giving focus back to the parent browser.
ctrl-q: i'm blurring flash
ctrl-t: ah, a new browser tab.
Anyway, I have a game with keyboard input and mouse input, and after certain mouse inputs I want to set the focus back to the stage in order to continue listening for keyboard events. I have a simple method in the document class:
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private function setCommandLineFocus( e:MouseEvent=null ):void
{
if( theCommandLine )[code]....
Where "theCommandLine" is a movieclip which gets attached, and is where I send the keyboard events to.
The problem I'm having is this: When the method gets called in internet explorer, it sets the keyboard focus to the URL bar, so you type stuff in, and then hit enter and it reloads the damn page.
I have a Flash movie which fills the whole browser window. This means that always the key events are catched ("stolen") by the Flash movie only, when using Firefox. IE7 seems to be working as I want.
I want for example ctrl+w (close window), ctrl+n (new window), ctrl+t (new tab) to work in Firefox while the focus is on my Flash movie. How to accomplish this?
I have a game where you can move a character around on a screen, very simple. My problem is, I have to click on the swf object in my browser before it starts to recognize my input keys. If there a way to set set to my swf object either in html or the swf itself /w as3?
This is the browser code I keep finding on googing:
Actionscript Code:
<body onLoad="window.document.mymovie.focus();"> <object width="760" height="820"> <param name="mymovie" value="test.swf"> <embed src="test.swf" width="760" height="820"> </embed> </object> </body>
When I publish a Flash CS4 Pro / AS3 game to an SWF file and uploads it to my webserver, I have to click the screen before I can use keyboard events.
Is there a way to force a focus onto the "swf stage" when loading the file in the browser, or do I have to publish an html file that controls the swf file to do that?[url]...
How can I check if a SWF element on a page has focus?
In IE, onkeydown events are not detected in JavaScript if a SWF has focus but Firefox always detects onkeydown.
Upon entering the screen, I set the focus to the first field, a combobox, and after making a selection I want to tab to the next field, a textfield, but I can't tab out of the combobox. I can use the mouse to click on the textfield and give it focus but I'd rather tab. I also tried to programatically give focus to the textfield (from the function associated with the combox's listener) without success.
View 10 Repliesdoes anyone know how to 'focus' on a flash movie? for example, my flash webpage has a button that when clicked opens a flash movie. i want the main site to darken and the flash movie to be in front in focus.url...
View 2 RepliesI want to focus the textfield with a cursor on it without clicking on the same and without using Ifocusmanager as I have taken the textField.
I have tried stage.focus but it doesn't seem to work the way I want.
I'm not that great with Actionscript 3.0, so naturally I have an hurdle to leap.
I using the 3D Carousel from flashcomponents.net and I need to figure out how to get the images blur when they are not the front focal on the Carousel. I tried an onRelease (which works to un-blur it), but I didn't know what else to pair it with so when I click on another object it blurs and goes to the back. I don't want it to blur when I roll off, only when another object is clicked.
I did embed an swf file in html.The file is working fine in all browsers except opera(all versions).I am facing problem that flash didn't get focus when application initially load.User has to click on page.Then the application works fine.
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I've been working on creatbutton using a MovieClip. I'm using the following events:
this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,OnClick);
this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER,OnButtonRollOver);
this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT,OnButtonRollOut);
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I try to figure out how does focus mechanism work in Flex. Here comes the example of what I mean:Let's assume that we have a simple web application, which contains custom component that extends Canvas and implements mx.managers.IFocusManagerComponent. This component overrides focusInHandler and focusOutHandler methods and shows some feedback on how they are called (thinner or thicker border). This custom component also contains some Text.[code]
If you click once on a violet canvas it receives focus (focusInHandler is called), then if you click again the focus is lost (focusOutHandler called) - why?Of you click on a Text the Canvas receives focus (focusInHandler called) and keeps it when being clicked wherever on the area (focusOutHandler nevet called) - why?
I am trying to make an editable DataGrid to insert a new row when user presses TAB in the last column of last row.y Grid:
<mx:DataGrid id="myGrid"
dataProvider="{initDG}" editable="true"
itemFocusOut="onItemFocusOut(event)">
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Now that setFocus() is gone, how do you tell the player to set focus to a specific input text field. I've searched thru the reference docs and haven't had any luck.
View 9 RepliesI have the swf embedded in a html page and want to know if it is possible to set the focus so that it is within the swf and not the html (browser) when the page loads. You have to click on the swf to make it active, I do want this.
View 2 RepliesI'm using the following code to set focus to a text box on my stage. stage.focus = txtAnswer.The problem is this. If the user don't click at least once on my movie clip it doesn't seems to register the text box (flickering cursor).
View 1 RepliesI have a textbox and listbox. when i enter something on textbox it should filter the text and listout the result in listbox. this works fine for me. my problem is how can i make keyboard enabled controls. both the way. eg, enter xyz in text when i press down arrow key it should goto listbox and able to select value using up,down and enter key's.
View 0 RepliesHow can I get the previous focus so I can compare what is in the textInput to what the user should have typed? I am wanting to check after the user types in their answer and clicks, tabs, or pushes enter to the next box.
View 0 RepliesSometimes it is necessary just to kill focus (e.g. from the TextField instance). But I found no ways to do that. The only solutions is to set focus on another instance that handles mouse events.
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