User Guide

TextField 685

The custom tab ordering defined by the tabIndex property is flat. This means that no

attention is paid to the hierarchical relationships of objects in the SWF file. All objects in the

SWF file with

tabIndex properties are placed in the tab order, and the tab order is

determined by the order of the

tabIndex values. If two objects have the same tabIndex

value, the one that goes first is

undefined. You should not use the same tabIndex value for

multiple objects.

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 2.0

Example

The following ActionScript dynamically creates four text fields and assigns them to a custom

tab order. Add the following ActionScript to your FLA or ActionScript file:

this.createTextField("one_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 10, 100,

22);

one_txt.border = true;

one_txt.type = "input";

this.createTextField("two_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 40, 100,

22);

two_txt.border = true;

two_txt.type = "input";

this.createTextField("three_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 70, 100,

22);

three_txt.border = true;

three_txt.type = "input";

this.createTextField("four_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 100, 100,

22);

four_txt.border = true;

four_txt.type = "input";

one_txt.tabIndex = 3;

two_txt.tabIndex = 1;

three_txt.tabIndex = 2;

four_txt.tabIndex = 4;