Hello Everyone,
I came across yet another problem this time about the combination of MXS and a Flash ActiveXObject.
The problem is just like I know from the dotNET listview example about the label edit part. So in that case it isnt such a real problem since they thought of enableAccelerators. So thats what I did in my case with my flash movie... This works.. But not good.
Most of the typing works except for a few things like the RETURN key wont register a new line while if you open the SWF with the flash player (or if you dont have open in your browser) the textField would work as it should. Also when using CTRL+C etc it replaces the selection with some kind of garbage char (this can be worked around in flash itself but its not what it should be).
After some (more like 6) hours of research I managed to find these things
If he’s correct about that it explains why its doing the same thing here a bit further down it was replied with
But max only has enableAccelerators (or does that come down to the same thing?). If you have tried my example (at the bottom) disabeling it does help a bit if you want to write down text. But it still adds that garbage char when trying copy/paste, and it still freaks on the RETURN key.
Im not expecting much flash guru's here but for what I see its more the MXS side thats not cooperating. Im hoping someone might have come across this in dotNET or something, or has any suggestions on how this could be fixed.
My example files can be found here in the attatchment or at [ http://www.box.net/shared/s0dxrk6wwg ]( http://www.box.net/shared/exobm1lkwc) (zip file with ms, fla (Flash CS3), swf and a txt file with the ActionScript used)
From what I know the site works fine although I never used it before, but im forced to use something like that since I'm not allowed ftp access at the office. If there are any problems please notify me and ill try to fix something else.
Regards,
Jenne
Edit: Oh and is there a way to trigger something when a dialog gets focus becouse the enableAccelerators is set back once you click outside the dialog. So when you move back in its on true while it should be off.
Edit2: added attatchment
I’m afraid I can’t help with the problem directly, but I find enableaccellerators to be completely unreliable at the best of times.
If anyone from Autodesk is reading this…
I think the best you can do is to have flash send a message to max when the textbox in your movie receives focus. Catch the event in your script and do a enableAccelerators = false in the event.
This works well for dotNetcontrols (onfocus event) so I suppose it should work for flash movies as well.
Martijn
That doesn’t solve the problem. Thats actually what I had before finding out that enable accelerators worked local (setting it on/off in a dialog).
But as I said it does work, it only doesn’t do what should be expected because its just for singe characters and some other loose buttons (blame flash I guess). The copy/paste/etc shortcuts must be handled differently somehow. And the linebreak char is added to the textfield as a nice square. But its not evaluated as an actual new line even when its set to multiline.
But I don’t see any possible things on what causes the problem let alone finding a good solution for it.