Button._focusrect

Availability

Flash Player 6.

Usage

my_btn._focusrect:Boolean

Description

Property; a Boolean value that specifies whether a button has a yellow rectangle around it when it has keyboard focus. This property can override the global _focusrect property. By default, the _focusrect property of a button instance is null; meaning, the button instance does not override the global _focusrect property. If the _focusrect property of a button instance is set to true or false, it overrides the setting of the global _focusrect property for the single button instance.

In Flash Player 4 or Flash Player 5 SWF files, the _focusrect property controls the global _focusrect property. It is a Boolean value. This behavior was changed in Flash Player 6 and later to permit customizing the _focusrect property on an individual movie clip.

Example

This example demonstrates how to hide the yellow rectangle around a specified button instance in a SWF file when it has focus in a browser window. Create three buttons called myBtn1_btn, myBtn2_btn, and myBtn3_btn, and add the following ActionScript to Frame 1 of the Timeline:

myBtn2_btn._focusrect = false;

Change the publish settings to Flash Player 6, and test the SWF file in a browser window by selecting File > Publish Preview > HTML. Give the SWF focus by clicking it in the browser window, and use the Tab key to focus each instance. You will not be able to execute code for this button by pressing Enter or the Space key when _focusrect is disabled.

Comments

Francis Cheng said on Apr 21, 2005 at 7:28 AM :

If the _focusrect property is set to false, then keyboard navigation for that button is limited to the Tab key. All other keys, including the Enter and arrow keys, are ignored. To restore full keyboard navigation, you must set _focusrect to true.

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