User Guide

Form.getChildForm() 743

Description

Property (read-only); returns the Form object that contains the global current focus. The

actual focus may be on the form itself, or on a movie clip, text object, or component inside

that form. May be

null if there is no current focus.

Example

The following code, attached to a button (not shown), displays the name of the form with the

current focus.

trace("The form with the current focus is: " +

mx.screens.Form.currentFocusedForm);

Form.getChildForm()

Availability

Flash Player 6 (6.0.79.0).

Edition

Flash MX Professional 2004.

Usage

myForm.getChildForm(childIndex)

Parameters

childIndex A number that indicates the zero-based index of the child form to return.

Returns

A Form object.

Description

Method; returns the child form of myForm whose index is childIndex.

Example

The following example is displayed in the Output panel the names of all the child Form

objects belonging to the root Form object named

application.

for (var i:Number = 0; i < _root.application.numChildForms; i++) {

var childForm:mx.screens.Form = _root.application.getChildForm(i);

trace(childForm._name);

}