A more appropriate page title would probably be in order, too. ;)
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Doug Lowder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I did quite a bit of investigation on this, including Jester's take > on the problem over on his site. The root of the problem is that > the browser does not automatically give the Flash player focus when > the page loads. For Internet Explorer, there is a way to accomplish > this through Javascript. As far as I know, Mozilla browsers do not > allow setting the focus to a plugin via Javascript. > > Here is html that you can use as a wrapper to set the focus to a > Flash app on startup. Just set the mxmlname and url variables > approiately for your case and browse to the html page instead of > your mxml app. > > <html> > <head> > <title>AboveNet Customer Portal</title> > </head> > > <script language="JavaScript"> > <!-- > var mxmlname = "app.mxml"; > var url = "http://server:port/path/"; + mxmlname; > var flashname = mxmlname + ".swf"; > var appframename = "appframe"; > > function setInitialFocus(sFrame, sFlash) { > document.frames[sFrame].document[sFlash].focus(); > } > > document.writeln("<frameset onload=\"setInitialFocus('" + > appframename + "', '" + flashname + "')\">"); > document.writeln("<frame name='" + appframename + "' > scrolling='no' width='100%' height='100%' " + > "frameborder=0 topmargin=0 bottommargin=0 leftmargin=0 > rightmargin=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 " + > "src='" + url + "'>"); > document.writeln("</frame>"); > document.writeln("</frameset>"); > //--> > </script> > > </html> > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "xithor" <frog@> wrote: > > > > I have a TitleWindow set to popup at the startup of my > application. I use this window at > > other points in the program with absolutely no problems. But when > it's called on startup > > using the 'initialize' event on my main canvas, it opens the > popup, and it functions fairly > > normally, but A: does not obtain focus automatically, B: does not > capture tab key presses. > > > > The loginWin TitleWindow is set to setFocus() on one of the text > input boxes... It highlights > > it in blue, but when you type, the text doesn't go into it, unless > you manually click in teh > > box. > > > > Then if I hit tab, it tabs through the items in my main canvas, vs > tabbing through items in > > the popup. > > > > I'm guessing this is somehow related to the window loading before > the main components > > are finished initializing, but I'm not sure how to get around > this. I've tried all sorts of tips > > and tricks, but still can't get it to work. > > > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. Code snippits below: > > > > > > > > Main Canvas: > > > > <mx:Canvas id="mainCanvas" width="100%" height="100%" > initialize="startUp();"> > > > > > > loginWin definition: > > > > var loginWin:Object; > > > > > > startUp() function: > > > > function startUp() { > > loginWin=TitleWindow(PopUpManager.createPopUp > (mainCanvas, loginBox , > > true)); > > loginWin.mainApp = this; > > loginWin.centerPopUp(); > > } > > > -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
