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Need to click on flash movie to set focus

Aug 17, 2012 1:47 PM

Using Flash CS4 Pro v. 10.0.2.

 

Any time I make a movie that uses onKeyDown, publish the swf + html files to my webserver, and test the movie from my browser, I have to click the movie once or twice before it gets focus and register my keystrokes.

 

I got a good answer for this a little over a year ago, but unfortunately I have misplaced it.

 

Could someone help me out? 

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Ole

823 Views   5 Replies   Latest reply: kglad, Aug 17, 2012 11:23 PM
 
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  • kglad
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    1. kglad,
    Aug 17, 2012 1:54 PM   in reply to KING-OLE
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    if you're using assign as3, use

     

    stage.focus=whatever

     

    to add focus to whatever.

     
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    2. KING-OLE,
    Aug 17, 2012 2:09 PM   in reply to kglad
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    Thanks, but not sure I follow you.

     

    Here's a simple example in a single AS file:

     

    package

    {

        import flash.display.MovieClip;

        import flash.events.KeyboardEvent;

        import flash.ui.Keyboard;

        import flash.events.Event;

       

        public class Main extends MovieClip

        {

            public function Main()

            {

                stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, onKeyDown);

            }

           

            function onKeyDown(event:KeyboardEvent):void

            {

                if (event.keyCode==Keyboard.RIGHT)

                {

                    player.x += 1;   // move the player to the right

                }

            }

        }

    }

     

    When I press the RIGHT arrow key, the player object in my FLA file moves to the right.

     

    When I publish this to a webserver, running the SWF file from an HTML file, I have to click the movie with the mouse before I can move the player with the keyboard.

     

    Thanks,

     

    Ole

     
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    3. kglad,
    Aug 17, 2012 2:41 PM   in reply to KING-OLE
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    use:

     

     

     

    package

    {

        import flash.display.MovieClip;

        import flash.events.KeyboardEvent;

        import flash.ui.Keyboard;

        import flash.events.Event;

     

        public class Main extends MovieClip

        {

            public function Main()

            {

    stage.focus=this;

                stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, onKeyDown);

            }

     

            function onKeyDown(event:KeyboardEvent):void

            {

                if (event.keyCode==Keyboard.RIGHT)

                {

                    player.x += 1;   // move the player to the right

                }

            }

        }

    }

     

     
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    4. KING-OLE,
    Aug 17, 2012 5:57 PM   in reply to kglad
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    Thanks, but that doesn't work either.

     

    Testing it some more, it seems to be the html file that Flash generates when you click publish.

     

    If I run the SWF file directly, it works.

     

    If I run the HTML file, it does not.

     

    Thanks,

     

    Ole

     
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    5. kglad,
    Aug 17, 2012 11:23 PM   in reply to KING-OLE
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    you can use javascript in your html to assign focus to your swf when your html loads:

     

    window.document.yourobjecttagname.focus()

     
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