FLASH: onClipEvent / getFocus problem!

[Till Steinmetz]

Hi,


got no answer on this post on the flashcoders list so perhaps someone here 

can help...


i made a mail form in Flash which will be sent with PHP.

Due to the Flash 5 player bug (check out technote 14732 / section about 

"I-beam cursor not visible")

which makes it impossible to see the blinking cursor in my textarea i added 

a "type your message here" text.

The whole mail-thing is a "popup" window (=movieclip) with an instancename 

of "mail_window". When the user clicks into

the textarea i want the "type your message here" text to be deleted, so i 

added this script to the "_root.mail_window" MC:

onClipEvent(mouseDown) {

if (_root.mail_window.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, false))

{

trace(Selection.getFocus())

}

}

just to find out what getFocus will return...

There are two things i dont really understand. Why does the 

onClipEvent(mouseDown) handler gets in action wherever the user clicks? I 

thought that a "ClipEvent" is somehow related to the movie-clip it is 

assigned to, i.e. only when the cursor is over the boundaries of the MC ? I 

had to add the hitTest to only execute the script if the user clicks into 

"mail_window".

Second question Selection.getFocus returns the path to the textarea ONLY if 

you click the textarea TWICE. Is this a bug or did i do something wrong ?

Till



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