This ground may have been covered already but this is an IE fix only. Firefox doesn¹t doesn¹t let you set focus programmatically to embedded Flash content. It¹s been a long-standing issue with the people at Mozilla.
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.accessibility/browse_thread/threa d/360ba2fcb48de633/ec87ab6b4e30d822 Rick Winscot On 3/17/09 8:00 AM, "sony antony" <pow_like_me...@yahoo.co.in> wrote: > > > > Hey.. > Thanks Toby... > That worked.. It was really troubling stuff for me.. Now am almost relaxed.. > > > > > --- On Tue, 17/3/09, Toby Tremayne <t...@lyricist.com.au> wrote: >> >> From: Toby Tremayne <t...@lyricist.com.au> >> Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Setting Focus on loading application >> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com >> Date: Tuesday, 17 March, 2009, 12:34 PM >> >> The issue is that the flash movie itself needs to receive focus before it >> can put the cursor in your username field. You can achieve this by adding >> this to your html wrapper (yourproject/ html-template/ index.template. html): >> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> >> function focusFlash() { >> ${application}.focus(); >> } >> </script> >> >> and modify the body tag like so: >> >> <body onload="focusFlash" > >> >> Once that's in there, the usual FocusManager code in your flex will work: >> >> focusManager. setFocus( username) ; >> >> Toby >> >> On 17/03/2009, at 5:54 PM, sony antony wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi,Can anyone help me out with this craziness of flex.. >>> I need to set focus to my username field when my application gets loaded. >>> While i was tracking this issue, I was caught up in http://bugs. adobe.com/ >>> jira/browse/ FP-879 <http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-879> . There they >>> specified about some kind of html wrapper code. I dint get any idea about >>> it. Please somebody help me to fix this. >>> >>> Thanks & Regards, >>> Sony >>> >>> >>> Check out the all-new face of Yahoo! India. Click here. >>> <http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_frontpage_1/*http://in.yahoo.com/?wm=n/> >>> >> >> >> >> >> Toby Tremayne >> CEO >> Magic Industries >> http://www.magicind ustries.net <http://www.magicindustries.net> >> mob: 0416 048 090 >> icq: 13107913 >> skype: lyricist1 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Invite them now. > <http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_messenger_6/*http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite > /> > > > >>
