After Killing The Focus On A Textfield, The Textfield Remains Selected. Why ?
Hi. I have a serious problem with the deselecting text when I kill the focus on a textfield.to see better what I am trying to say, please clcick this link: http://www.eurogaz.ro/rring/expert/
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Posted on: 04-14-2006, 05:37 AM
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I have the following problem:
On my stage sits a MC: personTab.nameBase. Inside the nameBase clip there are 10 input fields named input## (numbered from 0 - 9).
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Code:
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I have a movie that has four different input text fields, all in separate movieClips. Inside each movie clip I have code that listens for the 'Enter' key to be pressed, and if it is, it stores the value and turns the focus off of that textField...which works great.
Code:
txt.onKeyDown = function(){
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Code:
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Scenario:
- You have a form the user is filling out in your Flash site.
- They fill out half the form then go to another area of the site.
- The focus is still in the last textField they were entering information into.
- If there is other functionality that is not using form fields the focus stays on the last typed in textField.
- This can mess up other functionality events for the other movie clips in your site.
Solution:
Kill the current focus of the textField by setting the focus to a given movieClip:
ActionScript Code:
// enable focus for the clip
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I am using Flash MX. Let me know if this is possible in newer versions if not in MX.
Thanks
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e:// whoops.. mx 2004
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this goes on and on.
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ActionScript Code:
package net.myradon.navigation {
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import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.events.FocusEvent;
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//trace("de muisbutton " + this + "is nu buiten MC");
Tweener.addTween(this, {y:MOVE_Y, time:1, transition:"easeInBack"});
}
}
}
comments are in dutch so....
If there're other recommendations concerning this code don't hesitate! Is this superclass the best practice for same button behaviour? (All the button mc's are in a navigation_mc which is on stage)
this AS3-testcase project: http://www.myradon.net/testcase
By the way, the button mc's and textfields all have different instance names. Is this practical because of the superclass? How do I differentiate between different instance names even "this" reffers to different instance.
I'm getting a headache from reading AS3 essential and FLCS3 Advanced
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At a certain pt of time. if i need to know if the current stage.focus is focusing on a TextField. how do i check?
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if(stage.focus == TextField1)...
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I have this problem I'm unable to solve and I've been pulling my hair out. I'm creating an 'input' textField and I don't want to initially add any text into it so I set my_txt.text = ""; The problem is that if the textField is given no content I can also not select it to add content but if I add some blank spaces I am able to select the textField and type in some text. If you cut and past and run the script below you will see what I mean. Run it as is and then change my_txt.text = " ";
(I've got the Font linked in the Library. It works if there is text int he field)
Something else that might be related: When I set the font, colour or size of the input field, the type in some text, then change the formatting (colour, font), then select right at the end of the input box and type some more text it picks up the previous format settings so I have two different fonts in the textbox.
this.createTextField("my_txt", 1, 10, 10, 100, 40);
my_txt.border = true;
my_txt.multiline = false;
my_txt.wordWrap = false;
my_txt.autoSize = false;
//
my_txt.selectable = true;
my_txt.type = "input";
//
// set format
this.myTextFormat = new TextFormat();
this.myTextFormat.size = 12;
this.myTextFormat.bold = true;
this.myTextFormat.align = "left";
this.myTextFormat.font = "Arial";
this.myTextFormat.color = "0x000000";
// set text
my_txt.text = "";
// embed font
my_txt.embedFonts = true;
// apply formatting
my_txt.setTextFormat(this.myTextFormat);
Focus On A TextField ..doesn't Work?
Why is it not possible to do an setSelection on a textfield in Actionscript 3.0?
If you draw a dynamic textfield and call it's idintifier samle_txt and i would place these
lines of codes:
sample_txt.text ="Hello World";
sample_txt.setSelection(2,4);
It should work? or what about the setFocus? that does not work too.
Anybody got an idea why it does'nt not work ?
Setting TextField Focus BorderColor
This is frustrating me beyond belief.
How can I write a function that checks to see if a text box is in focus, and if it is, turn the border color to red... if not, turn it to grey?
PLEASE!
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