Re: FLASH: URGENT HELP REQUESTED - Field tabbing

[Matt Wobensmith]

Hi Linda- 


You cannot set tab order in Flash. There is a default tab order that

calculates left to right, top to bottom. Due to the fact that a) movie clips

calculate screen location relative to their own center points, and b)

buttons are included in the tab focus, this can cause unexpected behavior

for people. The best advice I can give is to experiment, keep it simple, and

give users other ways to navigate aside from tabbing. We simply do not have

much (any) control over tab order in Flash 4. This is an oft-requested

feature that I'm sure people at MM are hearing again and again. 


-Matt


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Matt Wobensmith

Macromedia Tech Support

Flash Team Lead


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From: "Linda Miller" <CLKMARGUSHEALTH [dot] COM>

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To: <Flasherchinwag [dot] com>

>Subject: FLASH: URGENT HELP REQUESTED - Field tabbing

>Date: Mon, Jan 31, 2000, 2:45 PM

>


>Please is there anyone who can tell me how to controll field tabbing in 

>Flash when used in a browser? Specifically, if the flash movie is on a 

>normal page in a normal browser (IE5 - full interface shown) using the OCX 

>player, I have tabbing but all typing goes into the browser address line. 

>Playing the movie on a frames page where all the browser interface controls 

>are not there (except the caption bar) I get no tabbing at all!

>

>I have looked at samples that others have made available, and they seem to 

>tab properly in IE yet I can't see that they have done anything differantly 

>than I did, other than they had less fields on the screen (I have 5).

>

>I have posted this question on several forums and NO ONE will post any kind 

>of response at all. Is there anywhere I can post this where someone from 

>Macromedia might see it and respond if no Flash developers can offer any advice?

>

>Linda

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