[flexcoders] setFocus is evil

[Stacy Young]

Title: Loading mxml Components

Tiny problem but it’s still driving me nuts. I’ve got a viewstack that’s changed based on a users selection. Each time a container within that stack is viewed an initialization script is run to populate form elements. At the end of the process I’m using setFocus to, well, focus on the first textinput field. The problem is the selection on the textinput field is the length of the previous value for that field. So if the current value of the textinput is “abc” and the model changes to “abcdef”…When the setFocus executes it’s only highlighting from a to c   Hope that was clear, ‘tis late…   Thx Stace -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Computer software testing Macromedia flex Development Software developer YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.