TextField keeps focus

Question

Hi,
I have the following problem:
On my stage sits a MC: personTab.nameBase. Inside the
nameBase clip there are 10 input fields named input## (numbered
from 0 - 9).
When I click one of these fields the cursor starts blinking
in the field which is clicked. This is OK, but the problem is that
the field doesn't loose focus unless a component is clicked
(radiobutton, combobox etc.).
I put in a listener to trace what happens:
In the onSetFocus event I get the target of the clicked field
and when I click the mouse somewhere on stage (where no component
is placed I get null as a target, but when I release the
mousebutton, the last selected field receives focus again and the
target of the field is returned again (instead of null). The
onKillFocus event doesn't return a thing. I already tried handling
the focus in the onSetFocus event in the following manner:
var clip:Array = newFocus._name.split(".");
if (substring(newFocus._name, 1, 5) == "input") {
var clipID:String = substring(newFocus._name, 6,
newFocus._name.length);
_global.activeField = clipID;
} else {
if(!newFocus._name){
//remove focus from textFields
Selection.setFocus(null);
delete _global.activeField;
But there is no response to Selecion.setFocus(null), the last
selected input field keeps getting focus after the mouse is clicked
on somewhere else on stage (but not on a component, or other text
field).
I hope someone can help me out. Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Rick.

Answer 1

onRollOver (your button) you store the begin and end index of
the Selection (in the textfield), onRelease(of your button) you set
your red textFormat on the previously stored indices, then you set
Selection.setSelection back to what it was...