I'm pretty sure you can't do anything about that. I've found that setting focus to the SWF only works in IE; e.g. - where you do a javascript .setFocus() to the swf object and the text box in the Flex app already has focus.
It's just a difference between IE/FF unfortunately... It's a little 'hacky' in my opinion, but if you absolutely need keyboard events from a non-focused swf, check out Gary Bishop's blog about a creative way of doing this by capturing keyboard events with Javascript. I've had to do it for a number of things I've worked on and it works for me, but only on those browsers with Javascript enabled... http://wwwx.cs.unc.edu/~gb/wp/blog/2007/06/08/fixing-firefox-flash-fooli\ shness/ <http://wwwx.cs.unc.edu/%7Egb/wp/blog/2007/06/08/fixing-firefox-flash-fo\ olishness/> - Kevin --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For me, it happens in every browser. > > > > ________________________________ > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Michelle Grigg > Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 10:36 PM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] Flex and Flash 9 movies in Firefox > > > > Hi guys! > > I'm perplexed. > > I have a Flex 2 application that runs a little Flash 9 movie within it > at one point. This SWF requires user interaction in the form of > typing a letter into a textbox. > > Strange things occur in Firefox when, once you get to the frame with > the textbox (focus is set to it so that the cursor is blinking), then > alt-tab to another window and go back, you cannot interact with the > textbox at all. The cursor has gone, and clicking on the control does > nothing. Clicking on a button works, however. > > Anyone know how to fix this? Anyone even had this problem themselves? > It ONLY happens in Firefox. > > Cheers, > Michelle >
