placing cursor in text field using AS3

[Guest]

I am a newbie to actionscript 3.0 and need a litlle help that I have not been able to find searching (for two weeks).

I would like the cursor to appear and blink in the first text field in  a  movie clip that gathers information to be sent to a php. The  following  does not work.

stage.focus = textField;
textField.setSelection(textField.text.length,textF  ield.text.length);

And the only other things I find are for custom cursors. I just want  the  visitor to see the blinking cursor in the firstName_txt input box  when  the page appearss.

Also, if the visitor tabs from one  input text field to the other, the blinking  cursor appears in the first  three input text fields but not in the fourth.  Yet, the visitor can  enter text in the fourth input text field.

[kglad]

disable keyboard shortcuts if you're testing in the flash test environment.

[Guest]

I may be missing something, but, first, what shortcuts and how do I disable them? Second, I stopped a Keyboard shortcuts program I use and the cursor still does not appear in the first input box.

[kglad]

where are you testing?   in your browser or the flash test environment or somewhere else?

[Guest]

I have tested by clicking crtl+enter and uploaded the files to my isp for testing. Neither effort is successful.

BTW, thanks for helping and I am sorry about the cross posting. My bad. I didn't realize there was a section for actionscript at the time.

[kglad]

what's your url and does anything need to be clicked to test your online input textfield?

[Guest]

the URL: www.shawvo.com/Learning/JackIndex14.html  Click on the contact button.

[kglad]

i see no problem.  my cursor appears in the first name field.

[Guest]

That is truly bizarre, because I have tried 1 desktop and 2 laptops in both IE and Firefox on each and have yet to have it work for me. I assume you are saying you see the blinking cursor in the "First name" input box. How can there be such a difference?

[kglad]

maybe you have some other software on your computers causing the problem.