Re: [Flashcoders] Focus within the Browser

2006-02-28 Thread Steve Mathews
Don't forget that you can get focus from Tab also, so just watching for a click event may miss some instances of focusing. On 2/27/06, Claudia Barnal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks again, > > Just another thought. > > If you know that you have received focus when the mouse is pressed on the >

Re: [Flashcoders] Focus within the Browser

2006-02-27 Thread Mike Britton
I would look at onClick as the event handler if a mouse click is the entry point. Both object and embed tags support it, but don't forget that the code I showed only works in Mozilla if the embed tag is taken out of the object tag. I'd have to work more with it to come up with anything more speci

Re: [Flashcoders] Focus within the Browser

2006-02-27 Thread Claudia Barnal
Thanks again, Just another thought. If you know that you have received focus when the mouse is pressed on the stage (onMouseDown()), can't you use that to detect the focus and onblur to detect the loss of focus? Or is there another reason for using your code to detect when you receive the foc

Re: [Flashcoders] Focus within the Browser

2006-02-27 Thread Mike Britton
No - just when you receive it. When you lose focus, onblur is called. The event handler would look like var obj00 = document.getElementById ("oid"); obj00.onblur = function() { alert("Embed tag has lost focus"); } On 2/27/06, Claudia Barnal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Mi

Re: [Flashcoders] Focus within the Browser

2006-02-27 Thread Claudia Barnal
Thanks Mike, I'm going to try this out as soon as possible. I had a quick look at it, for which I have only one question. Would this handle both when you loose focus and when you receive it? _ Are you using the latest version of

Re: [Flashcoders] Focus within the Browser

2006-02-27 Thread Mike Britton
IE and Mozilla handle this differently. I wasn't able to detect focus via JavaScript unless I took the embed tag out of the object tag. Ref: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/objects/object.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/objects/embed.asp T

[Flashcoders] Focus within the Browser

2006-02-27 Thread Claudia Barnal
Ok, so I have a pretty simple question. How can I know if the SWF has the focus within the Browser. I need to do something like this: if ( playerHasFocus == true ) { myMC._visible = true; } else { myMC._visible = false; } Thanks, Claudia ___