--- In [email protected], "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You should rarely need to set focusEnabled. Setting it on Application > can screw up the focus logic. It doesn't totally solve the problem, > though, which I would solve like this: > > > > <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; > > layout="absolute" creationComplete="defaultButton=button1; > button1.setFocus()" > > > > > <mx:Button id="button1" x="28" y="19" /> > > <mx:Button id="button2" x="28" y="49" /> > > <mx:Button id="button3" x="28" y="79" /> > > </mx:Application> > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of y_kessler > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 10:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcomponents] Pressing 'Enter' to click a default button > > > > > Hello all, I'm at the end of my rope here... > > Trying to simply have a default button on my login form that gets > clicked when a user presses the 'Enter' key. According the the > documentation, the following code should work: > > <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml > <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml> " > layout="absolute" > focusEnabled="true" > defaultButton="{this.button1}" > > > <mx:Button id="button1" x="28" y="19" focusEnabled="true"/> > <mx:Button id="button2" x="28" y="49" focusEnabled="true"/> > <mx:Button id="button3" x="28" y="79" focusEnabled="true"/> > </mx:Application> > > But I'm not getting anywhere with this. The button doesn't show up > with any default highlight, and doesn't respond to key presses. If I > set the FocusManager.defaultButton directly, I can see a default > highlight on the button, but it still doesn't respond to key presses. > > Finally, I decided I would just capture the keystroke, and perform > the click programmatically in ActionScript, but there's not even a > way to do that! > > Absolutely stumped. Anybody? > > Thanks--- > Yarin >
Hi Yarin, So, this works for me but... it didnt until I added a textInput and then clicked in it to get focus in the app... but once some control in the app had focus, a return would cause the alert sent by the default button. i hope this helps. Brian <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; layout="absolute" focusEnabled="true" defaultButton="{this.button1}" > <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ import mx.controls.Alert; private function testClick(event:Event):void { Alert.show("got a click from an enter"); } ]]> </mx:Script> <mx:VBox> <mx:TextInput /> <mx:Button id="button1" label="b1" x="28" y="19" click="testClick(event)" /> <mx:Button id="button2" label="b2" x="28" y="49" /> <mx:Button id="button3" label="b3" x="28" y="79" /> <mx:TextInput /> </mx:VBox> </mx:Application>
