window Focus new issue?

**Boombanguk** · 04-17-2006, 10:16 AM

Hi,

I've noticed recently how theres a weird frame around my Flash movie, which goes away when I click on the window. I think Flash has always needed the user to click on the window to give it focus (or am I remembering wrong?), but is there anyway around this? can the window be giving focus with actionscript somehow?

thanks for any help
boombanguk

**a_modified_dog** · 04-17-2006, 12:48 PM

the browser takes precedence until the movie is clicked,
unless you add a function in your html :

PHP Code:


<script>

function focusIt(){

if(document.layers){

document.bob.focus()

}

else if(document.getElementById){

document.getElementById("bob").focus()

}

else if(document.all){

document.all["bob"].focus()

}

}

</script>

</head>

<body onload="focusIt()">



<object classid ... ID="bob" >

<param name=movie value="bob.swf">

<embed name="bob" ... src="bob.swf"

**Boombanguk** · 04-17-2006, 01:04 PM

im not sure what I should set "bob" too? in my html for object id theres just a long number, not a name??

**a_modified_dog** · 04-17-2006, 01:08 PM

post the html source code that contains the <OBJECT> and <EMBED> tags for your movie and I might be able to answer

**Boombanguk** · 04-17-2006, 01:39 PM

this from the source,thanks:

<object classid="clsid

27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="800" height="600">
<param name="movie" value="index.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high"><param name="BGCOLOR" value="#003366">
<embed src="index.swf"

**a_modified_dog** · 04-17-2006, 02:49 PM

PHP Code:


<HTML>

<HEAD>

<TITLE>focus movie</TITLE>





<script Language="Javascript">

<!--



function focusTheMovie(){

 if(document.layers){

  document.bob.focus()

}

 else if(document.getElementById){

  document.getElementById("bob").focus()

}

 else if(document.all){

  document.all["bob"].focus()

 }

}

//-->

</script>

</HEAD>

<body onload="focusTheMovie();"  bgcolor="#003366">



<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"

codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.ca

b#version=6,0,29,0" width="800" height="600" id="bob">

<param name="movie" value="index.swf">

<param name="quality" value="high">

<param name=bgcolor value=#003366>

<embed name="bob" 

src="index.swf" 

quality="high" 

bgcolor=#003366  

pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"

type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="800" height="600"

></embed></object>

</BODY>

</HTML>

**a_modified_dog** · 04-18-2006, 01:08 PM

did it work for you ??

**Ironclaw** · 04-20-2006, 09:53 AM

Didn't work for me, just tried it.

**a_modified_dog** · 04-20-2006, 10:03 AM

microsoft has changed the way IE handles plugins -
http://blog.deconcept.com/2005/12/15...-flash-plugin/

have a look at FlashObject: Javascript Flash detection and embed script -
http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/

**Boombanguk** · 04-20-2006, 10:06 AM

hi, thanks, I just posted your reply to the issue on the other thread thats running about it. Iron claw said that, that your solution didnt work?? anyone know why it didn't work? it looks pretty close to the solution here..

http://www.thinkydinky.com/click_to_...s_control.html

**a_modified_dog** · 04-20-2006, 11:40 AM

In IE 6.0.29, the code below works, it focuses the swf without user interaction.
Focus is given to an input textfield with - Selection.setFocus("myText");
and you can type without clicking into the movie.
It fails in FireFox, but I'm sure someone can post the workaround

focus.html -

PHP Code:


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">

<HTML>

<HEAD>

<TITLE>focus the movie</TITLE>

<script src=focus.js></script>

</HEAD>

<BODY onload="focusBob()" bgcolor="#7DC6BD" scroll="auto" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" > 

<TABLE HEIGHT='100%' WIDTH='100%'><CENTRE>

<TR><TD>

<script>loadBob();</script></CENTER></TD></TR></TABLE>

</BODY>

</HTML>

focus.js -

PHP Code:


function loadBob()

{

    output = "<object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\"  codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0\"  WIDTH=\"100%\" HEIGHT=\"100%\" id=\"bob\" ALIGN=\"\">";

    output += "<param NAME=movie VALUE=\"focus.swf\">";

    output += "<param NAME=loop VALUE=false>";

    output += "<param NAME=menu VALUE=false>";

    output += "<param NAME=quality VALUE=high>";

    output += "<param NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#7DC6BD><EMBED src=\"focus.swf\" loop=false menu=false quality=high bgcolor=#7DC6BD  WIDTH=\"100%\" HEIGHT=\"100%\" NAME=\"bob\" ALIGN=\"\"  TYPE=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" PLUGINSPAGE=\"http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer\"></EMBED></object>";

    document.write(output);

}

function focusBob(){

 if(document.layers){

  document.bob.focus()

}

 else if(document.getElementById){

  document.getElementById("bob").focus()

}

 else if(document.all){

  document.all["bob"].focus()

 }

}

tested online with -
http://www.jackleaman.co.uk/test/focus/focus.html

**mallory885** · 04-20-2006, 02:08 PM

Thank you Thank You
for this post... why did thisd seem to happen all of the sudden. did i just miss it and it was always there

Thanks... worked for me

TM

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