Add the focusOut event listener when you get a focusIn on the text input. Then, when your focusOut event fires and you open the pop-up window, remove the focusOut event listener from the text input.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Laurence" <lmacne...@...> wrote: > > I want a pop-up window to appear when someone tabs out of a particular > TextInput in my app. So I simply set its FocusOut event equal to the > function that makes the pop-up window appear... Sounds simple enough, right? > > But the FocusOut event keeps occurring over and over... I type something > into the TextInput then hit Tab. The pop-up window pops up the way it's > supposed to. I select something in the pop-up window (or close it without > selecting anything) and it pops right back up. It's like my TextInput is > re-gaining focus and then losing it again (which makes the window pop-up, > again, forcing me to select something or close the window, which makes it > happen again, etc., etc....) > > So how do I prevent this from happening? Why is FocusOut occurring over and > over and over like that? I've tried, in my FocusOut handler, setting the > focus onto another TextInput before calling the pop-up window, but that does > no good -- same exact results. > > This is incredibly frustrating! Anyone have any ideas? > > Thanks, > Laurence MacNeill > Mableton, Georgia, USA >
