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Program origin | RE: [Flashcoders] Differentiating between User originating and
Program origin 2004-03-09 - By EECOLOR
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The TextFieldExtension component indeed use the setFocus methods to return
focus to the object that had focus before the component stole focus to some
magic ;)
But for your problem. In your case it would be handy if the component would
set a Flag to the textfield. Mail me offlist if u want me to make those
changes and to discuss what else would be handy in this situation.
Greetz Erik
At 19:07 9-3-2004, you wrote:
>I can't user Key.isDown(1), as the process that uses the setFocus method is
>set off by a button click.
>
>My situation:
>- There is a passage of text in the movie.
>- The user highlights a portion of this text with their mouse. I check for
>the onSetFocus event to see when this happens and use Selection.getFocus()
>to determine whether it's the right field. I set up a mouse listener to
>listen for the next onMouseUp event to determine when the user has finished
>selecting the text.
>- When the user has finished selecting the text a method is called to do
>something with that text (open a Note object where the user can add and save
>comments about the selected text).
>- When the user closes this Note object a saveAndClose event is fired that
>uses various methods from eecolor's excellent textfieldextension component
>to highlight the originally selected text. I believe several programmatic
>setFocus's are used in this extension which fires my onSetFocus method
>several times (I'm reluctant to change the textextension code to add a flag
>as I'm hoping to retain the encapsulation).
>
>Logically, testing for Key.isDown(1) (left mouse button) should prevent code
>running unless the mouse button is down. So the mouse listener should only
>be set up if the user is selecting text from the field. Unfortunately,
>tracing Key.isDown(1) reveals that it's returning true when setFocus events
>are happening! Now I think about it I suppose this makes sense as it's a
>button click that sets the process of saveAndClose.
>
>Sorry if this situation is unclear.
>
>(I'm trying the previously suggested flag setting solution at the moment)
>
>brook
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