Using tab navigation in Flash Lite

On desktop Flash applications, the Tab and Shift+Tab keys let users switch keyboard focus among objects on the screen. The object that has focus responds to further keypresses. In Flash Lite, the arrow keys on the device's five-way keypad serve the same purpose as the Tab and Shift+Tab keys.

Flash Lite supports three different modes of tab navigation: two-way, four-way, and four-way with wrap-around. Different devices and Flash Lite content types support different navigation modes. For more information, see Modes of tab navigation.

Tab navigation in Flash Lite works with buttons and text fields. When an input text field has focus and the user presses the Select key, Flash Lite opens the device's generic text input dialog box, in which the user can enter text. For an example of using input text fields to get user input, see Text field example application.

This section contains the following topics:

Modes of tab navigation

About the focus rectangle

Guidelines for using tab navigation

Flash CS3