RE: FLASH: a couple of problems: help!!!

[Greg Bueltmann]

My experience is that tabbing between text fields in Flash 4 always goes in

horizontal order.  Additionally, tabbing between text fields when there are

other objects on the screen like buttons, selects the buttons as well.  I

suppose this could be avoided by using tell target and separate movie clips,

but I gave up on it before trying that.  I have not found a work around for

this.


Greg


> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Dorian Nisinson [dorianbway [dot] net (mailto:dorianbway [dot] net)]

> Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 2:14 PM

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To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: Re: FLASH: a couple of problems: help!!!

> 

> 

> Hi Andy,

> 	As to your first question I don't know the answer to 

> that one but I

> find myself wondering what order you created the text fields in. That

> would be the first thing I'd test in your situation. The next 

> thing that

> occurs to me is the order of layers that the fields might be 

> on and the

> third thing to explore is loading order of you text fields. 

> As I said at

> the start, I haven't tested this so these are just off the top of my

> head ideas.

> 

> 	For the second question the answer is no. You cannot go 

> from Flash to a

> plain text document on your server. You need a script (CGI, ASP, etc.)

> to handle the data that Flash sends.

> 

> 	Hope this helps.

> 

> Dorian

> 

> Andy Hartzell wrote:

> > 

> > OK, these are slightly used questions.  I asked them 

> before, in a more

> > wordy fashion, but didn't get any responses.  So I figured 

> if I worded them

> > more concisely, and added a few exclamation points to the 

> Subject line, I

> > might have better luck.

> > 

> > Question one:  I've created a form with a number of text 

> fields.  Flash

> > automatically sets things up so that the user can tab 

> through the fields,

> > but in my case the user tabs through them in the wrong 

> order.  Is there any

> > way to manually set the order in which fields line up to be 

> tabbed through?

> > 

> > Also:  I know how to use Action Scripting to obtain a 

> variable from a text

> > file, but is it possible to do the reverse--i.e. to set up 

> a plain .txt

> > document and write to it from Flash?  Specifically, I'd 

> like to mimic the

> > "setPref" Lingo function.

> > 

> > Thanks in advance for any and all help!

> > 

> > Andy Hartzell

> > 

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