[flexcoders] Re: TitleWindow lost focus on startup
I did quite a bit of investigation on this, including Jester's take
on the problem over on his site. The root of the problem is that
the browser does not automatically give the Flash player focus when
the page loads. For Internet Explorer, there is a way to accomplish
this through Javascript. As far as I know, Mozilla browsers do not
allow setting the focus to a plugin via Javascript.
Here is html that you can use as a wrapper to set the focus to a
Flash app on startup. Just set the mxmlname and url variables
approiately for your case and browse to the html page instead of
your mxml app.
html
head
titleAboveNet Customer Portal/title
/head
script language=JavaScript
!--
var mxmlname = app.mxml;
var url = http://server:port/path/; + mxmlname;
var flashname = mxmlname + .swf;
var appframename = appframe;
function setInitialFocus(sFrame, sFlash) {
document.frames[sFrame].document[sFlash].focus();
}
document.writeln(frameset onload=\setInitialFocus(' +
appframename + ', ' + flashname + ')\);
document.writeln(frame name=' + appframename + '
scrolling='no' width='100%' height='100%' +
frameborder=0 topmargin=0 bottommargin=0 leftmargin=0
rightmargin=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 +
src=' + url + ');
document.writeln(/frame);
document.writeln(/frameset);
//--
/script
/html
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, xithor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a TitleWindow set to popup at the startup of my
application. I use this window at
other points in the program with absolutely no problems. But when
it's called on startup
using the 'initialize' event on my main canvas, it opens the
popup, and it functions fairly
normally, but A: does not obtain focus automatically, B: does not
capture tab key presses.
The loginWin TitleWindow is set to setFocus() on one of the text
input boxes... It highlights
it in blue, but when you type, the text doesn't go into it, unless
you manually click in teh
box.
Then if I hit tab, it tabs through the items in my main canvas, vs
tabbing through items in
the popup.
I'm guessing this is somehow related to the window loading before
the main components
are finished initializing, but I'm not sure how to get around
this. I've tried all sorts of tips
and tricks, but still can't get it to work.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Code snippits below:
Main Canvas:
mx:Canvas id=mainCanvas width=100% height=100%
initialize=startUp();
loginWin definition:
var loginWin:Object;
startUp() function:
function startUp() {
loginWin=TitleWindow(PopUpManager.createPopUp
(mainCanvas, loginBox ,
true));
loginWin.mainApp = this;
loginWin.centerPopUp();
}
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[flexcoders] Re: TitleWindow lost focus on startup
A more appropriate page title would probably be in order, too. ;)
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Doug Lowder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I did quite a bit of investigation on this, including Jester's
take
on the problem over on his site. The root of the problem is that
the browser does not automatically give the Flash player focus
when
the page loads. For Internet Explorer, there is a way to
accomplish
this through Javascript. As far as I know, Mozilla browsers do
not
allow setting the focus to a plugin via Javascript.
Here is html that you can use as a wrapper to set the focus to a
Flash app on startup. Just set the mxmlname and url variables
approiately for your case and browse to the html page instead of
your mxml app.
html
head
titleAboveNet Customer Portal/title
/head
script language=JavaScript
!--
var mxmlname = app.mxml;
var url = http://server:port/path/; + mxmlname;
var flashname = mxmlname + .swf;
var appframename = appframe;
function setInitialFocus(sFrame, sFlash) {
document.frames[sFrame].document[sFlash].focus();
}
document.writeln(frameset onload=\setInitialFocus(' +
appframename + ', ' + flashname + ')\);
document.writeln(frame name=' + appframename + '
scrolling='no' width='100%' height='100%' +
frameborder=0 topmargin=0 bottommargin=0 leftmargin=0
rightmargin=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 +
src=' + url + ');
document.writeln(/frame);
document.writeln(/frameset);
//--
/script
/html
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, xithor frog@ wrote:
I have a TitleWindow set to popup at the startup of my
application. I use this window at
other points in the program with absolutely no problems. But
when
it's called on startup
using the 'initialize' event on my main canvas, it opens the
popup, and it functions fairly
normally, but A: does not obtain focus automatically, B: does
not
capture tab key presses.
The loginWin TitleWindow is set to setFocus() on one of the text
input boxes... It highlights
it in blue, but when you type, the text doesn't go into it,
unless
you manually click in teh
box.
Then if I hit tab, it tabs through the items in my main canvas,
vs
tabbing through items in
the popup.
I'm guessing this is somehow related to the window loading
before
the main components
are finished initializing, but I'm not sure how to get around
this. I've tried all sorts of tips
and tricks, but still can't get it to work.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Code snippits below:
Main Canvas:
mx:Canvas id=mainCanvas width=100% height=100%
initialize=startUp();
loginWin definition:
var loginWin:Object;
startUp() function:
function startUp() {
loginWin=TitleWindow(PopUpManager.createPopUp
(mainCanvas, loginBox ,
true));
loginWin.mainApp = this;
loginWin.centerPopUp();
}
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