Text input component and onfocus

[oskom]

Hello all,
Does anyone know a simple actionscripted way of deleting the initial text of a text input component on focus then return that text on blur if nothing was input? All I can find online is all of these bulky event listener methods. Frankly, it's seems easier to do this form input crap in javascript with standard HTML elements than mess with Flash.

[Ovaire d'Oz]

To detect the focus, you can use TextField.onSetFocus and the equivalent to onBlur is TextField.onKillFocus.
To set back the old value you could try something like this:
TextField.onSetFocus = function(){
myValue = TextField.output.text;
TextField.output.text = "";
}
TextField.onKillFocus = function(){
if (TextField.output.text == ""){
TextField.output.text == myValue;
}
}

[oskom]

At first it didn't work, but with some adjustments I got the focus part to work:

var theSearchBox = _root.searchBox.searchbox;

theSearchBox.onSetFocus = function() {
	var myValue = theSearchBox.text;
	theSearchBox.text = "";
}
theSearchBox.onKillFocus = function() {
	if (theSearchBox.text == ""){
		theSearchBox.text = myValue;
	}
}

The onKillFocus, however, is not working. It doesn't even appear that clicking outside the text input is allowing it to kill the focus, which may be the problem. FYI, I'm using AS2.

[oskom]

I noticed that the focus is killed when I click out of the entire flash movie, not just out of the text input area. That's annoying. Any ideas why?

[Ovaire d'Oz]

I suppose Flash thinks that if you click outside the movie, you will not want to interact with it any longer. Annoying, probably, but I am sorry to say that I don't have any solution.