Tabchildren (Movieclip.tabchildren Property) - MACROMEDIA FLASHLITE2 ACTIONSCRIPT-LANGUAGE Reference

tabChildren (MovieClip.tabChildren property)

public tabChildren : Boolean
Determines whether the children of a movie clip are included in the automatic tab ordering. If
the property is or , the children of a movie clip are included in
tabChildren undefined true
automatic tab ordering. If the value of is , the children of a movie clip are
tabChildren false
not included in automatic tab ordering. The default value is .
undefined
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 2.0
Example
A list box UI widget built as a movie clip contains several items. The user can click each item
to select it, so each item is a button. However, only the list box itself should be a tab stop. The
items inside the list box should be excluded from tab ordering. To do this, the
tabChildren
property of the list box should be set to .
false
The property has no effect if the property is used; the
tabChildren tabIndex tabChildren
property affects only automatic tab ordering.
The following example disables tabbing for all children movie clips inside a parent movie clip
called :
menu_mc
menu_mc.onRelease = function(){};
menu_mc.menu1_mc.onRelease = function(){};
menu_mc.menu2_mc.onRelease = function(){};
menu_mc.menu3_mc.onRelease = function(){};
menu_mc.menu4_mc.onRelease = function(){};
menu_mc.tabChildren = false;
Change the last line of code to the following to include the children movie clip instances of
in the automatic tab ordering:
menu_mc
menu_mc.tabChildren = true;
See also
,
tabIndex (Button.tabIndex property) tabEnabled (MovieClip.tabEnabled
, ,
property) tabIndex (MovieClip.tabIndex property) tabIndex
(TextField.tabIndex property)
516 ActionScript classes