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Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Here is quick Flex Tip. If you don’t want to display focus rectangle on pressing TAB key, you should use focusEnabled = false;
It’s quick solution for 1 component, but if you want disable focus for all components in your application just use focusManager.deactivate();

That’s all, hope it helps to anyone…

New: Thanks to Marc Hughes for pointing this out:

Instead of focusManager.deactivate(); use focusManager.showFocusIndicator=false;

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3 Comments

Marc Hughes
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May 29th, 2008

Please don’t do that, it screws up the web for people using screen readers and Flash already has a hard enough time in that area without people purposefully mucking it up.

You probably actually want:
focusManager.showFocusIndicator=false;
cazlo
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June 25th, 2008

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Dave
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June 26th, 2008

Much like Marc said, whilst this is a neat trick, it does to lead problems on various OS/browser/flash version combinations.

Try to avoid the use of this using:
focusManager.showFocusIndicator=false;