It's a desktop AIR app, Alex. It's in a spark.components.Window spawned off the
main application window, opened with .open(true). And if I click the native
window's titlebar before I type, it's no help either.
From: Alex Harui <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; Dave Glasser
<[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 5:23 PM
Subject: [BASE64] Re: Odd tab/focus behavior
Sounds like the browser hasn’t activated the SWF? Maybe SWFObject no
longer works properly on certain browsers?
-Alex
On 8/21/15, 2:10 PM, "Dave Glasser" <[email protected]> wrote:
>I'm using Flex 4.13.0, on the AIR 14.something platform. I have a login
>dialog, that has username/password fields (both mx.controls.TextInput)
>that are in a VBox in a Panel that was popped up by the PopUpManager.
>Inside a handler for its creationComplete event, I am focusing the
>username field like this:
>usernameField.setFocus();
>and I've also tried
>
>focusManager.setFocus(usernameField);
>When the dialog first appears, the cursor is blinking inside the username
>field and it has the focus rectangle, as you'd expect. When I type in a
>username, the letters appear in the field as expected.
>The problem is that the first time I hit the tab key, nothing happens.
>Maybe the cursor inside the field flickers but that's it. And if I hit
>the tab key a second time, it behaves as expected, with the focus moving
>to the password field.
>
>If, before I hit the tab key the first time, I click inside the text
>field with the mouse, then the first tab keystroke shifts the focus as
>expected.
>Has anyone encountered this before?
>
