User Guide

Global Properties 103

If the global _focusrect property is set to false, 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 by using either

Button._focusrect or

MovieClip._focusrect.

Note: If you use a component, FocusManager overrides Flash Player's focus handling,

including use of this global property.

Note: For the Flash Lite 2.0 player, when the

_focusrect property is disabled (such as

Button.focusRect = false or MovieClip.focusRect = false ), the button or movie clip

still receives all events. This behavior is different from the Flash player, for when the

_focusrect property is disabled, the button or movie clip will receive the rollOver and

rollOut events but will not receive the press and release events.

Also for Flash Lite 2.0, you can change the color of the focus rectangle by using the

fscommand2

SetFocusRectColor command. This behavior is different from Flash Player,

where the color of the focus rectangle is restricted to yellow.

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 1.0

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;