Flash CS3 w/ AS3 - Arrow key navagation help!

Question

First, I'll appologize in advance for my lack of experience
in Flash. I've used the product for about 2 weeks now to put a
presentation together so my knowledge is still pretty thin.
Here's my problem:
I've created a Flash presentation that I hope to be able to
navigate using only the arrow keys and enter -- no other keys. The
reason being that this will be run using a remote control. The
navigation works fine, but I seem to need to hit the "tab" key in
order to first set keyboard focus on the first item on the stage. I
have to do this every time I jump to a new menu (new keyframe in
the timeline) and new button objects are displayed onscreen.
How can I set the keyboard focus on an item on the stage
without having to hit "tab"? I've tried stage.focus(),
button.setFocus(). I've tried playing with the FocusManager. So far
I've had no luck (I wish I had tracked everything I had tried so I
can list it).
I also tried creating a blank stage with three button
components. In that example, I simply could not use the keyboard at
all.
Any thoughts or help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

try stage.focus = mc
(where mc is the instance name of the first menu item)
Do you ever actually click on those item you are trying to
set focus too? If your nav is really all just arrows and enter then
I would think you should take a differnt approach...lots of ways
you could do it, such as setting up an array of values and having
the arrow keys move you through the array and enter would perform
it's action based on the current selection.