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<br> <br>OK, in F8 in a browser trying an initial focus on load does not work because the F object needs to be given focus first.<br>Add a "Start" button prior to the setFocus attempt and of course it starts to work because the piece now has focus.<br>There is a bug in Flash whereby when you set focus to an empty field you get no caret, but there is a workaround to that.<br><br>So the identical setup in Xerte does not want to work.<br>It is recognizing when the field is gaining or losing focus, but Selection.setFocus in the browser does not give the textfield focus i.e. typing does not appear.<br><br>:-/<br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Subject: RE: [Xerte] text input focus<br>Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:42:40 +0100<br>From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">Tried taking Xerte out of the picture and built a simple flash piece?</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial">At least that will tell us whether the problem is on our side of things or not...</font></div></div>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Dave Burnett<br><b>Sent:</b> Thu 26/08/2010 19:31<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] text input focus<br></font><br></div>
<div>That it doesn't work in a browser?<br><br>I stripped it down to bare bones, no embedded fonts, nothing but a script created text field and a few event catchers.<br>Works fine in authoring mode, no go in browser.<br><br><br><br>
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] text input focus<br>Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:14:24 +0100<br>From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br><br>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">If you’re trying to set the focus to the textfield, the movie will get the focus anyway.</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">What does a simple example tell us?</span></p></div></div><br>
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