Besides the mechanics of this, you should change the appearance of the tab 
to indicate that it's not available for use, otherwise the user may think 
there's a fault with the application if there's no clear indicator.

Paul
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From: "reflexactions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 6:04 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Temporarily block tabbing into a Container


>I want to block the user from being able to tab into all controls in a
> particular container but only temporarily. At some point I would open
> the container to be tabbed into again but for a while I want them
> unreachable, but visible.
>
> Seems to me this is something that evey app would need to do at some
> point, but I can't figure out how to do it.
>
> I can cover the container with a click shield to stop the user clicking
> on any control, that works fine, but I cant seem to stop them tabbing
> in to it.
>
> The container may contain many nested containers and many, many
> controls so trying to iterate over every control and do something is
> not really practical in this case.
>
> Is there someway to get the focus manager to temporarily ignore these
> controls when someone hit the tab key?
>
> tks
>
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