[Flashcoders] Tab accessibility of buttons within dynamically displayed movie clip
I am trying to ensure all the buttons in my movie are accessible with the keyboard only and have run into a problem where several buttons within a movie clip that is dynamically displayed are not being highlighted by the tab. Basically I have 2 buttons on screen that are placed via the timeline. And I dynamically display a game over panel that has a Submit button and a Play Again button within it. I have used the accessibility properties panel to assign a tab order to these 2 buttons. However when the panel is displayed these 2 buttons do not highlight when the tab key is repeatedly pressed. It just highlights the other 2 buttons, alternating the highlight between the 2. Anyone any insight into why these buttons are not highlighting? Do I need to use some action script after the panel has been displayed to set the accessibility? Btw the game is being published as Flash 6 Action Script 1. Thanks Paul ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Tab accessibility of buttons within dynamically displayed movie clip
Did you enable tabChildren on the dynamically displayed movieclip? myClip.tabChildren = true ? tabChildren : Boolean Determines whether the children of the object are tab enabled. tabEnabled : Boolean Specifies whether this object is in the tab order. Yours, Weyert de Boer On 27/04/2009, at 7:47 AM, Paul Steven wrote: I am trying to ensure all the buttons in my movie are accessible with the keyboard only and have run into a problem where several buttons within a movie clip that is dynamically displayed are not being highlighted by the tab. Basically I have 2 buttons on screen that are placed via the timeline. And I dynamically display a game over panel that has a Submit button and a Play Again button within it. I have used the accessibility properties panel to assign a tab order to these 2 buttons. However when the panel is displayed these 2 buttons do not highlight when the tab key is repeatedly pressed. It just highlights the other 2 buttons, alternating the highlight between the 2. Anyone any insight into why these buttons are not highlighting? Do I need to use some action script after the panel has been displayed to set the accessibility? Btw the game is being published as Flash 6 Action Script 1. Thanks Paul ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Tab accessibility of buttons within dynamically displayed movie clip
Hi Weyert, No I didn't. I wasn't aware you could. I assume that the default is therefore not to enable them. Only one way to find out I guess. Many thanks Paul -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Weyert de Boer Sent: 27 April 2009 11:04 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Tab accessibility of buttons within dynamically displayed movie clip Did you enable tabChildren on the dynamically displayed movieclip? myClip.tabChildren = true ? tabChildren : Boolean Determines whether the children of the object are tab enabled. tabEnabled : Boolean Specifies whether this object is in the tab order. Yours, Weyert de Boer On 27/04/2009, at 7:47 AM, Paul Steven wrote: I am trying to ensure all the buttons in my movie are accessible with the keyboard only and have run into a problem where several buttons within a movie clip that is dynamically displayed are not being highlighted by the tab. Basically I have 2 buttons on screen that are placed via the timeline. And I dynamically display a game over panel that has a Submit button and a Play Again button within it. I have used the accessibility properties panel to assign a tab order to these 2 buttons. However when the panel is displayed these 2 buttons do not highlight when the tab key is repeatedly pressed. It just highlights the other 2 buttons, alternating the highlight between the 2. Anyone any insight into why these buttons are not highlighting? Do I need to use some action script after the panel has been displayed to set the accessibility? Btw the game is being published as Flash 6 Action Script 1. Thanks Paul ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] Tab accessibility of buttons within dynamically displayed movie clip
I tried the tabChildren code and still the buttons do not highlight when the
tab key is pressed. Any other ideas why these buttons are not being
highlighted?
The panel that is displayed has various keyframes, each with different panel
variations on. Each of these panels has a text entry field to allow the user
to enter their nickname.
I have used the following code to focus the text entry field. Perhaps this
is causing problems?
Selection.setFocus(objGame.popupPanelObject.nicknameTxt);
My buttons are the following paths:
popupPanels.submitBtn
popupPanels.playAgainBtn
I have just tried adding the following code in a function that is called
when the panel keyframe displays but still no joy:(
popupPanels.submitBtn.tabEnabled = true;
popupPanels.playAgainBtn.tabEnabled = true;
Btw here is my code to display the pop up panel, just in case there is
anything here that would affect it.
function createPopupPanel() {
var strInstanceName = popupPanels;
var strLinkageName = popup-instructions;
var numDepth = 10010;
objGame.popupPanelObject =
objGame.thePath.attachMovie(strLinkageName, strInstanceName, numDepth);
objGame.popupPanelObject.tabChildren = true;
objGame.popupPanelObject._x = -30;
objGame.popupPanelObject._y = -30;
}
Any ideas anyone?
Paul
-Original Message-
From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com
[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Weyert de
Boer
Sent: 27 April 2009 11:04
To: Flash Coders List
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Tab accessibility of buttons within dynamically
displayed movie clip
Did you enable tabChildren on the dynamically displayed movieclip?
myClip.tabChildren = true ?
tabChildren : Boolean
Determines whether the children of the object are tab enabled.
tabEnabled : Boolean
Specifies whether this object is in the tab order.
Yours,
Weyert de Boer
On 27/04/2009, at 7:47 AM, Paul Steven wrote:
I am trying to ensure all the buttons in my movie are accessible
with the keyboard only and have run into a problem where several
buttons within a movie clip that is dynamically displayed are not
being highlighted by the tab.
Basically I have 2 buttons on screen that are placed via the
timeline. And I dynamically display a game over panel that has a
Submit button and a Play Again button within it. I have used the
accessibility properties panel to assign a tab order to these 2
buttons. However when the panel is displayed these 2 buttons do not
highlight when the tab key is repeatedly pressed. It just highlights
the other 2 buttons, alternating the highlight between the 2.
Anyone any insight into why these buttons are not highlighting? Do I
need to use some action script after the panel has been displayed to
set the accessibility?
Btw the game is being published as Flash 6 Action Script 1.
Thanks
Paul
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Re: [Flashcoders] Interesting problem - doesn't work without call to trace.
I know this is a few days old, but I have some input.
I have seen something similar to this with AS2. Using the WebServices class,
when you make a method call on a web service object, you create a pending
call object, and one of the properties of the pendingCall class was
doLazyDecoding. What this variable specified was whether the player should
convert the XML data to native Flash objects right away, or only when
needed.
I had multiple issues with trying to access information from the return of a
WebService call, and the only way to fix it was to set doLazyDecoding to
false.
Since WebServices send data as XML, it could be, that the same type of issue
is occuring here in AS3 with the new XML object. FP is probably doing
something in the background with the xml just loaded, and hasn't finished
yet when you don't put the trace in.
That's just my wacky theory.
Ktu
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Taka Kojima t...@gigafied.com wrote:
Hey Tim,
I have run into this before as well, with both ActionScript and using
alert() in JavaScript.
What I concluded was that the trace/alert basically adds a small pause
or causes something to happen (i.e. skip a frame or something of the
sort) so that the code below it works.
I may be totally wrong and this may sound crazy and stupid, but
whenever I did something like take the trace out and put the rest of
the code into a COMPLETE event for a timer, or had the code run on the
next frame with an onEnterFrame, it started working.
I know you say you don't think its a timing issue, but instead of the
loop try doing a Timer and see if that solves it.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Tim Hawkins tim...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Well, it becomes a null - so if I do select1.toString() in the trace I
just
get a runtime error.. And I don't want to turn the results of my query
into
a string, because I need it as an XML ref.
2009/4/17 Glen Pike g...@engineeredarts.co.uk
Have you tried the toString or toXMLString for this - check the XML
class
for the proper function name...
Glen
Tim Hawkins wrote:
Hi Matt,
No, afraid not.. I actually use the select1 variable elsewhere, so it's
not
just that trace which is the problem.
Thanks for the suggestion though!
2009/4/17 Matt S. mattsp...@gmail.com
Does it make a difference if you write the trace as :
trace(formData=+formData);
trace(select1:+ select1);
On 4/17/09, Tim Hawkins tim...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi,
I've come across this a few times in my own code, but haven't seen it
mentioned online - though it's a difficult thing to google for.
In the following function, if the trace at the top is present,
formData
traces a load of XML and select1 also traces a load of XML.
If I comment out the top trace, formData still traces the same pile
of
XML
but select1 traces null!
public function testMakeModelFilterWorks():void {
trace();
default xml namespace = NAMESPACE;
var select1:XML = formData..select1[2];
trace(formData=, formData);
trace(select1:, select1);
// etc
default xml namespace = null;
}
Any ideas? I'm getting fed up of leaving 'trace();//don't delete
me'
at
the top of functions.
(I don't think it's a timing thing, if I put a 10-item
increment-a-variable loop in there instead of a trace the E4X still
fails.)
t.
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Sorry to ask a Flex question here but I'm sure one of you knows the answer or at least can point me to the place I can find the answer. I am using Flex builder to build a pure AS project. I have been using the 3.0 sdk without a problem. When I updated the SDK to in order to build a Flash 10 project the compiler can't find the core flash package. So base stuff like MovieClip does not exist. I pretty much just downloaded the SDK and added via the preferences dialogue. I've tried the 3.2, 3.3, 4.0 SDKs with the same results. I'm sure I am missing some step but I'm not sure what. Also, where is the best forum for asking Flex questions? Thanks ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
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