User Guide

Global Properties 117

_focusrect property

_focusrect = Boolean;

Specifies whether a yellow rectangle appears around the button or movie clip that has

keyboard focus. If

_focusrect is set to its default value of true, then a yellow rectangle

appears around the currently focused button or movie clip as the user presses the Tab key to

navigate through objects in a SWF file. Specify

false if you do not want to show the yellow

rectangle. This is a global property that can be overridden for specific instances.

If the global

_focusrect property is set to false, then the default behavior for all buttons

and movieclips is that keyboard navigation 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. To restore full keyboard functionality for a specific button or movieclip,

you can override this global property using either

Button._focusrect or

MovieClip._focusrect.

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 4

Example

The following example demonstrates how to hide the yellow rectangle around any instances in

a SWF file when they have focus in a browser window. Create some buttons or movie clips

and add the following ActionScript in frame 1 of the Timeline:

_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. Pressing Enter or the Space key when

_focusrect is disabled does not invoke the onRelease event handler as it does when

_focusrectis enabled or true.