User Guide

670 ActionScript classes
See also
hscroll (TextField.hscroll property), maxhscroll (TextField.maxhscroll
property)
, maxscroll (TextField.maxscroll property), scroll (TextField.scroll
property)
onSetFocus (TextField.onSetFocus handler)
onSetFocus = function(oldFocus:Object) {}
Invoked when a text field receives keyboard focus. The oldFocus parameter is the object that
loses the focus. For example, if the user presses the Tab key to move the input focus from a
button to a text field, oldFocus contains the button instance. If there is no previously focused
object,
oldFocus contains a null value.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 2.0
Parameters
oldFocus:Object - The object to lose focus.
Example
See the example for
TextField.onKillFocus.
See also
onKillFocus (TextField.onKillFocus handler)
_parent (TextField._parent property)
public _parent : MovieClip
A reference to the movie clip or object that contains the current text field or object. The
current object is the one containing the ActionScript code that references
_parent.
Use
_parent to specify a relative path to movie clips or objects that are above the current text
field. You can use
_parent to climb up multiple levels in the display list as in the following:
_parent._parent._alpha = 20;
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 2.0