RE: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus
Thanks for the replies guys. Changing the wmode to window is not possible, because it's a drop down menu over html elements - it has to remain transparent. Besides, I tried that during testing, and it didn't help. Hendrik is correct about the focus, it's in the web-browser, not Flash. I don't even think it's about focus anymore, the situation got weird. When the top of the Flash is set to 0 (or even at 10 pixels), everything works. But when I try to move it down a bit lower in the browser with CSS (in any way possible: setting the top value, setting the top value of its parent, setting various margins and paddings, you name it), the moment you scroll down, the rollovers become inactive. I did solve it in the end by keeping it at 0 and adding white space at the top of the flash movie itself, but that's a bit of a kludge. The CSS is an adaptation of an existing template for the CMS, so I have no idea what can be causing the bug. Some kind of z-indexing problem? Anything else that could be interfering? Mystified, Karina -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders- boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Sumeet Kumar Sent: 31 May 2010 6:08 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus Hello :) In the object tag try making wmode = window. Thanks Sumeet Kumar - Original Message - From: Henrik Andersson he...@henke37.cjb.net To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 1:47 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus Cor wrote: At any given moment: stage.focus = stage; or stage.focus = yourInputField; Wrong focus, I am certain that the issue is not about the focus internal to the player, but the focus in the full webbrowser. The full flash player is lacking the focus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus
At any given moment: stage.focus = stage; or stage.focus = yourInputField; HTH -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Kerry Thompson Sent: zaterdag 29 mei 2010 20:06 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus Karina Steffens wrote: You mean rains, right? :P Darn! My e-mail program drops keystrokes. Don't know why--I'm using the GMail Web interface. I just type too fast. So, there's no way to regain (or at least to rain...) focus without clicking at all? Not even by using a mouseover event or a timer inside flash? No, not as far as I know. You can set the focus on an input field, of course, but that won't take effect until the user gives your .swf focus. You understand the security issues, so I won't belabor them. I've run into the same problem. I'm writing a math game where the user's response time is important. If they have to click on the browser window before typing the answer, that skews the results. We got around it by having the user log in, so the browser window should have focus when the problem is presented. If the user switches to another program--say, during the intoduction--we have no way of getting focus back until the user clicks on the browser. I'm working with a couple of the best in the business--Mark Jonkman and Raman Pfaf--and they both tell me the same. And more rain on my parade: After uploading the flash movie to the server, some of the links in the dropdown menu have stopped working - clicking on the doesn't do anything, while others seem to be ok. And it's arbitrary per click... And this appears to be cross browser, while locally it's fine. Any ideas what I should be looking for here? Not much. I assume you've checked the usual culprits--the URL is formed correctly, your .swf isn't busy in a loop, no security issues involved, etc. I'd use the debug Flash player and FlashDevelop to trace out what happens when the button is clicked. Cordially, Kerry Thompson ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.819 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/2904 - datum van uitgifte: 05/29/10 20:25:00 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus
Cor wrote: At any given moment: stage.focus = stage; or stage.focus = yourInputField; Wrong focus, I am certain that the issue is not about the focus internal to the player, but the focus in the full webbrowser. The full flash player is lacking the focus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus
OK, is this in a particular browser or multiple?? -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Henrik Andersson Sent: zondag 30 mei 2010 10:17 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus Cor wrote: At any given moment: stage.focus = stage; or stage.focus = yourInputField; Wrong focus, I am certain that the issue is not about the focus internal to the player, but the focus in the full webbrowser. The full flash player is lacking the focus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.819 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/2904 - datum van uitgifte: 05/29/10 20:25:00 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus
Is Javascript like this: body onLoad=document.yourElementName.focus() a solution for you? -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Henrik Andersson Sent: zondag 30 mei 2010 10:17 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus Cor wrote: At any given moment: stage.focus = stage; or stage.focus = yourInputField; Wrong focus, I am certain that the issue is not about the focus internal to the player, but the focus in the full webbrowser. The full flash player is lacking the focus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.819 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/2904 - datum van uitgifte: 05/29/10 20:25:00 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus
Here is a discussion which is about the focus issue: http://www.actionscript.org/forums/archive/index.php3/t-120307.html HTH Cor -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Henrik Andersson Sent: zondag 30 mei 2010 10:17 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus Cor wrote: At any given moment: stage.focus = stage; or stage.focus = yourInputField; Wrong focus, I am certain that the issue is not about the focus internal to the player, but the focus in the full webbrowser. The full flash player is lacking the focus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.819 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/2904 - datum van uitgifte: 05/29/10 20:25:00 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus
Hello :) In the object tag try making wmode = window. Thanks Sumeet Kumar - Original Message - From: Henrik Andersson he...@henke37.cjb.net To: Flash Coders List flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 1:47 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus Cor wrote: At any given moment: stage.focus = stage; or stage.focus = yourInputField; Wrong focus, I am certain that the issue is not about the focus internal to the player, but the focus in the full webbrowser. The full flash player is lacking the focus. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Regain stage focus
Hi List, I'm working on a flash dropdown menu for an html site (AS3 FP10). After a wasted Friday and Saturday morning I finally figured out how to get the menus appear above html items in Firefox without obscuring mouse input on items below them (in case anyone's interested, using ExternalIntertface to change the height of the menu bar Object with JavaScript seems to be the only way). (And yes, it would have been better to use a CSS menu, or even dhtml for the animation, but my client insisted on Flash). But now I'm having another Firefox related issue - sometimes interacting with other page elements, or even scrolling the page, seems to lose the focus on the Flash object, and the rollovers stop working until the swf receives a click. It only seems to happen in Firefox, so far - IE8 behaves as expected, and I've yet to test on other browsers (oh joy...). So the question is, what's the best way to regain stage focus without clicking on it? Is it even possible? Thanks, Karina ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus
Karina Steffens wrote: So the question is, what's the best way to regain stage focus without clicking on it? Is it even possible? AFAIK, no, it's not possible. It's a security issue--less scrupulous people could wreak havoc by forcing focus on a .swf. Anyway, it rais too much in Dublin ;-) Cordially, Kerry Thompson ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus
You mean rains, right? :P So, there's no way to regain (or at least to rain...) focus without clicking at all? Not even by using a mouseover event or a timer inside flash? And more rain on my parade: After uploading the flash movie to the server, some of the links in the dropdown menu have stopped working - clicking on the doesn't do anything, while others seem to be ok. And it's arbitrary per click... And this appears to be cross browser, while locally it's fine. Any ideas what I should be looking for here? Karina -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders- boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Kerry Thompson Sent: 29 May 2010 6:29 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus Karina Steffens wrote: So the question is, what's the best way to regain stage focus without clicking on it? Is it even possible? AFAIK, no, it's not possible. It's a security issue--less scrupulous people could wreak havoc by forcing focus on a .swf. Anyway, it rais too much in Dublin ;-) Cordially, Kerry Thompson ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus
Karina Steffens wrote: You mean rains, right? :P Darn! My e-mail program drops keystrokes. Don't know why--I'm using the GMail Web interface. I just type too fast. So, there's no way to regain (or at least to rain...) focus without clicking at all? Not even by using a mouseover event or a timer inside flash? No, not as far as I know. You can set the focus on an input field, of course, but that won't take effect until the user gives your .swf focus. You understand the security issues, so I won't belabor them. I've run into the same problem. I'm writing a math game where the user's response time is important. If they have to click on the browser window before typing the answer, that skews the results. We got around it by having the user log in, so the browser window should have focus when the problem is presented. If the user switches to another program--say, during the intoduction--we have no way of getting focus back until the user clicks on the browser. I'm working with a couple of the best in the business--Mark Jonkman and Raman Pfaf--and they both tell me the same. And more rain on my parade: After uploading the flash movie to the server, some of the links in the dropdown menu have stopped working - clicking on the doesn't do anything, while others seem to be ok. And it's arbitrary per click... And this appears to be cross browser, while locally it's fine. Any ideas what I should be looking for here? Not much. I assume you've checked the usual culprits--the URL is formed correctly, your .swf isn't busy in a loop, no security issues involved, etc. I'd use the debug Flash player and FlashDevelop to trace out what happens when the button is clicked. Cordially, Kerry Thompson ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus
This is getting weirder by the moment... It's not even a question of regaining focus anymore, but why is it losing it in the first place? When first going to the page, the rollovers work fine with no need to activate. Then if you click somewhere on the page (or even a different window) without scrolling, it's still ok. But after scrolling the page (scrollbar or scroll wheel), the rollovers stop responding until you click somewhere in the movie. More than that, in Safari (Windows) I can't even click anywhere anymore - it becomes completely unresponsive. HOWEVER - I found plenty of examples of flash movies embedded in html that didn't do it, including some of my own. I'm using SwfObject2 to embed the flash (in a CMS Made Simple Framework). Could that have anything to do with it? The generated object looks like this: object style=visibility: visible; data=uploads/theme/menu.swf name=menu id=flash-menu type=application/x-shockwave-flash width=900 align=left height=35param value=true name=playparam value=true name=loopparam value=false name=menuparam value=high name=qualityparam value=showall name=scaleparam value=t name=salignparam value=transparent name=wmodeparam value=#FF name=bgcolorparam value=false name=devicefontparam value=true name=seamlesstabbingparam value=false name=swliveconnectparam value=false name=allowfullscreenparam value=sameDomain name=allowscriptaccessparam value=all name=allownetworking/object script type=text/javascript Karina PS: The links problem is solved. Using an attribute instead of an element in the XML to store the url did it. -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders- boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Kerry Thompson Sent: 29 May 2010 7:06 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Regain stage focus Karina Steffens wrote: You mean rains, right? :P Darn! My e-mail program drops keystrokes. Don't know why--I'm using the GMail Web interface. I just type too fast. So, there's no way to regain (or at least to rain...) focus without clicking at all? Not even by using a mouseover event or a timer inside flash? No, not as far as I know. You can set the focus on an input field, of course, but that won't take effect until the user gives your .swf focus. You understand the security issues, so I won't belabor them. I've run into the same problem. I'm writing a math game where the user's response time is important. If they have to click on the browser window before typing the answer, that skews the results. We got around it by having the user log in, so the browser window should have focus when the problem is presented. If the user switches to another program--say, during the intoduction--we have no way of getting focus back until the user clicks on the browser. I'm working with a couple of the best in the business--Mark Jonkman and Raman Pfaf--and they both tell me the same. And more rain on my parade: After uploading the flash movie to the server, some of the links in the dropdown menu have stopped working - clicking on the doesn't do anything, while others seem to be ok. And it's arbitrary per click... And this appears to be cross browser, while locally it's fine. Any ideas what I should be looking for here? Not much. I assume you've checked the usual culprits--the URL is formed correctly, your .swf isn't busy in a loop, no security issues involved, etc. I'd use the debug Flash player and FlashDevelop to trace out what happens when the button is clicked. Cordially, Kerry Thompson ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
