Just to clear up any possible confusion, the problem involves HTML input fields (although it could be affecting other things as well.)
-Dan --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Dan G. Switzer, II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A user recently reported a problem that I've never observed. > > We have a Flex SWF embedded into our HTML application that displays a > series of charts. > > In IE6 if you go to another window and come back to IE6 and your > cursor was placed in a text field, the focus is lost. This seems to > happen for any HTML page that contains a SWF. > > You can verify this issue by going to Adobe.com and placing the cursor > in the "Search" box at the top of the page. Now if you ALT+TAB away > and ALT+TAB back to the IE6 window, you'll see the cursor is no longer > in the input field. If you run the same test on Google.com, you'll > notice the cursor stays put. > > While this is a corner case, it's affecting some of our clients > because the bounce back and forth frequently between our web app and > their e-mail clients. So, now on any page with a SWF embedded, it's > forcing them to replace their cursor--which they never used to have to do. > > More on my blog: > http://blog.pengoworks.com/blogger/index.cfm?action=blog:606 > > Any ideas on how I might fix this issue? > > I tried placing the SWF in an IFRAME--to see if that changed the > behavior. I've also messed around with Window object to see if there > was an event I could find which would dictate when the Window > lost/received focus, but there's nothing that tells me exclusively > when the window is activated again (the focus event doesn't work well > because it's triggered for lots of in-page operations.) > > Thanks! > Dan >
