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FLASH TRICK FOR DEVELOPERS

One problem with using Flash without the use of a mouse, has been that you would get trapped when tabbing into a flashfile. Sonokids has developed an extention for Flash MX which solves the problem.
If you are a Flash developer, you can download the extention from this page - for free of course.

Tabbing through Flash

Link 0 Link 1 Link 2

Link 3 Link 4 Link 5

Please notice, that the .swf knows if you tab in from upstairs (TAB) or from downstairs (SHIFT-TAB) ...:)

This method works with anchor.focus.
The javascript specifications says this was implemented from Explorer 5.5.
but it seems to work also in 5.0

AN EXTENTION FOR FLASH MX CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM HERE >>> (ZIP format)
Just install this with Extention Manager, and you will get it all.
Instruction for use is build into the extention

A new solution can be tried out here - You can use your own flashfilesTabout 3.0
Sourcefile and scripts can be downloaded

The Flash programmer does not need to know the linknumbers. Instead they can be set by the HTML programmer.
If these are not one and the same person this will be more useful, since the .FLA does not need to be changed
- if links is added or erased on the page.

John Norgaard/sonokids.com

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