Editable text inside draggable movie clip

Question

I am dinamically creating textfields inside movie clips.
Those movie clips are all dragabble (startDrag).
The problem is that those textfields are supposed to be
editable (input type) but once I attach startDrag to them, it's
impossible for them to get the focus, hence they are not editable.
I tried manually setting the focus on release, but it didn't work
(Selection.setFocus(_root.movieclip.textfield)).
Any help will be rrrrreally appreciated :D

Answer 1

Well there does have to be some pixels in the bg clip! (Got
to tease you just a bit, because I run into this ALL the time.)
Some how folks don't take the method at its word.
createEmptyMovieClip() does just that. It creates and empty movie
clip. There are no pixels in it so there is nothing to onPress.
Also I've got a little trick for you – you didn't ask
for it, but it is still free. :)
If you use the MovieClip class' method for
createEmptyMovieClip() it will return a reference to the newly
create clip. You can assign that reference to a variable and use it
again and again. To my eye it makes the code easier to read and
maintain. So your code would change to something like:
var curClip=this.createEmptyMovieClip("mc"+i,1000+i);
curClip.createEmptyMovieClip("bg",100);
curClip.createTextField("myText",2,20,20,"auto","auto");
curClip.myText.text="default value";
curClip.bg.onPress=function(){
this._parent.startDrag();
and so on.
Also I personally think getNextHighestDepth() is a disaster
waiting to happen so I personally never use it.