Comments on: Fixing Firefox Flash Foolishness

By: gb

gb — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:47:42 +0000

Sorry, I can’t help you on that.

By: anshuman

anshuman — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:49:24 +0000

my problem :

in explorer i can bring drop down menus created in js over the flash, but in firefox the dropdown created in js is coming behind the flash.How can i solve this problem, for explorer i used . Can you please suggest me what will be script for firefox to fix my proble ????

regards,

anshuman

By: the_board_room

the_board_room — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:35:53 +0000

simulate a click event to give the same focus of a click

document.getElementById(”movie”).click();

By: sebomoto

sebomoto — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:25:09 +0000

@wes:
Hi,

how would you implement tabindex? i thought tabindex was only allowed for links or forms.

did not help here! (’my content’ is the flash container/swfobject)

Sebastian

By: Wes

Wes — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:28:40 +0000

Setting tabindex to -1 on the embed or object will allow you to .focus() properly. No need for fancy workarounds.

By: Don Moir

Don Moir — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:05:57 +0000

I have had a few request from those who do not use Flash CS3. The sample FLA file is not readable without CS3. So the focussample.zip now includes a text file of the action script code. (FocusSampleFla.txt)

The working sample can be found here:

http://sms.pangolin.com/FocusSample/FocusSample.html

The sample source code can be found here:

http://sms.pangolin.com/FocusSample/focussample.zip

Don

By: Don Moir

Don Moir — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:34:12 +0000

Peeyush,

I am not sure if I read you clearly. It is not necessarily that the TextInput will actually gain the focus, but it will have the appearance of having the focus. In a real app this does require a good piece of work. Study the FocusSample.fla file.

By: Don Moir

Don Moir — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:59:40 +0000

Hi Peeyush, Thanks for the comment…
….
I do not use flex because I don’t want to give Adobe more of a chance to screw up ! lol So this means pretty much everything I do is custom and everything works as expected…
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Perhaps if Adobe added a focus() function to the flash object this could be fixed by them. I could be wrong here but seems reasonable. So the problem is that all browsers except IE do not provide this function when wmode is ‘window’. In Firefox when wmode is not ‘window’ it also has the focus function but other things don’t work… Seems like grade school stuff… If you have ever used Flash CS3 Professional, the damn doesn’t know if it’s coming or going lol. Painting all the time and sure as hell has trouble keeping track of the focus as well as color code highlighting etc. It’s no wonder there are problems.
…..
Now IE does mangage to get it right, and the other browsers do not. But Adobe, when wmodw is ‘window’ you have a hell of alot of control so whats up ?

By: Peeyush Tuli

Peeyush Tuli — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:02:25 +0000

Hi Don,
Your work looks amazing. I tried it out immediately.
In the example webpages you have mentioned, the behavior is as expected but when I used your html wrapper in a local flex project, it did not make any difference.
Flex Builder – 2.0.1
Firefox – 2.0.0.13

Steps –
Create new project FocusSample.
Added a textinput to it.
Copied your html and js file to the bin folder.
Opened the html in browser.
Is there a call back method required in
the swf file to accomplish this?

Has anybody else used it successfully in their projects?

~Peeyush

By: Stewart

Stewart — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:27:22 +0000

Reading this interesting story because i have some trouble getting a flash scrollbar working (using the scrollwheel on the mouse) without clicking the swf first.

I tried adding a javascript in the body tag: onLoad=”window.document.secarchitecten.focus();”
but without luck.

Is there a way to set the focus to the swf – in a way that the scrollwheel will work immediately without clicking the swf?
And by the way, the flash is written in AS2.

For working example you can visit the following link: http://www.secarchitecten.com/nieuw/

Stewart