I have a flash movie where there's a input textfield that needs to have focus so the user can start typing when the page loads (as opposed to clicking in the field first to give the .swf focus).

So I've read this article:
http://helpx.adobe.com/flash/kb/give...ded-movie.html

And it pretty much says, unless you have a play button (which I don't, and isn't an option), then there's no way of doing it (except in IE).

I've seen a few workarounds that people claim work i.e calling a JavaScript function to force focus/change tab index etc from inside the SWF, but they usually don't work for me/aren't cross-browser.

Has anyone ever achieved this effect?