Besides the mechanics of this, you should change the appearance of the tab to indicate that it's not available for use, otherwise the user may think there's a fault with the application if there's no clear indicator.
Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "reflexactions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 6:04 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Temporarily block tabbing into a Container >I want to block the user from being able to tab into all controls in a > particular container but only temporarily. At some point I would open > the container to be tabbed into again but for a while I want them > unreachable, but visible. > > Seems to me this is something that evey app would need to do at some > point, but I can't figure out how to do it. > > I can cover the container with a click shield to stop the user clicking > on any control, that works fine, but I cant seem to stop them tabbing > in to it. > > The container may contain many nested containers and many, many > controls so trying to iterate over every control and do something is > not really practical in this case. > > Is there someway to get the focus manager to temporarily ignore these > controls when someone hit the tab key? > > tks > > > ------------------------------------ > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Alternative FAQ location: > https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 > Search Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups > Links > > > >
