> Should it not put the cursor into the textArea and have the 10th > through 20th characters selected?
Even if you select a range of text with the mouse you will not see the blinking insertion cursor in the textarea. What matters is that your app has focus so that it can receive keyboard actions. So the trick is to come-up with some trivial task for the user to perform that forces them to click. Regards, -Keith http://keithreinfeld.home.comcast.net <http://keithreinfeld.home.comcast.net/> _____ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blake Barrett Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 1:47 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: textArea.setFocus(); There is some JS you can run in the wrapper HTML that will give focus to the SWF, but it doesn't work in FF2 or Chrome. Blake _____ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of valdhor Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 11:35 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: textArea.setFocus(); Unfortunately, you can't. The browser has focus until the user clicks on your app. BTW. Does anyone know if this is rectified with FP10? Or is it just something we have to live with from the browser vendors? --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ups.com, "tchredeemed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks guys, now I guess my problem is how to give the application > focus without clicking on it? > > parentApplication.systemManager.activate() ? > > Not sure exactly where to go :) >