setFocus not working

It's working now, you have to click on the flash window before it works!

"dave" <dave@nospam.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I'm just trying out the sample code in flash 8 to give focus to a text
> field, and I've copied the code from the help pages and it simply doesn't
> work!
>
> When I run the code, there is never one of the text boxes active, until
> you click on a button.
>
> This is wrong i believe as there is a line of code that says
> Selection.setFocus("username_txt");
>
> which i think should give focus initially.
>
> Could anyone clarify please, this is really driving me mad!
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave
>
>