[Xerte] Re: Setting Focus on the SWF

[Dave Burnett]

Define which environment is exhibiting which behaviour.
Authoring? local testing? server(http) testing?



getURL("javascript:swfName.focus( );void 0;");

// I don't think this is actually doing anything, and is the cause of the new browser windows opening.
 

Selection.setFocus(this);

// this is for giving focus to objects internal to the swf (like a text field), not giving focus to the swf embedded within the browser, which I thought was the issue here.


flash.external.ExternalInterface.call("document.getElementById(\"rlo\").focus"); 
 


There are a couple changes in this one from the previous attempts.
Try removing the fully qualified path:



ExternalInterface.call("document.getElementById(\"rlo\").focus");







Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:20:11 +0300
From: admin at strivney.com
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Setting Focus on the SWF

Another discovery for the information of this list.  I previously had tried:
getURL("javascript:swfName.focus( );void 0;");Selection.setFocus(this);

in the SWF but it didn't do the trick.
When I added Dave's suggestion:
 flash.external.ExternalInterface.call("document.getElementById(\"rlo\").focus"); 

problem was fixed.  I later took out the first bit of code as I thought it was superfluous and..... problem again.
So, weirdly or not, a combination of the two pieces of code is what solved the problem:

getURL("javascript:swfName.focus( );void 0;");Selection.setFocus(this);flash.external.ExternalInterface.call("document.getElementById(\"rlo\").focus");

When I at m testing on the desktop and get to the page in the rlo which houses that SWF, two browser windows open up.




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