Re: FLASH:F5 bugs? (was XML socket server source and demo...)

[John Dowdell]

> > With the key object demo, it doesn't work until you

> > actually click somewhere in the browser window.

>

> It's just like any other program, if it doesn't have focus,

> no input will work...

> Can a program *pull* itself into focus (without resorting

> to OS-specific scripting)?


To my knowledge the various browsers don't offer a common way to achieve

this, sorry. (Although they're all designed to the predefined HTML spec,

edge conditions like these may the various proprietary implementations

vary.)


A common "social-engineering" way to avoid such keyfocus issues is to have

a "start" button or other element in the movie, so that people must click

in the object before directing keyboard events to it. This handles the

focus without people even realizing it's an issue.


jd







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