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Selection.getFocus

selection, selection.getfocus, getfocus, focus

Availability

Flash Player 5. Instance names for buttons and text fields work in Flash Player 6.

Usage

    Selection.getFocus()

Parameters

None.

Returns

A string or `null`.

Description

Method; returns the variable name of the text field that has focus. If no text field has focus, the method returns `null`. If the current focus is a button, and the button is an instance of the Button object, `getFocus` returns the target path as a string. If the current focus is a text field, and the text field is an instance of the TextField object, `getFocus` returns the target path as a string.

If a button movie clip is the currently focused button, `Selection.getFocus` returns the target path of the button movie clip. If a Text Field with an instance name is currently focused, `Selection.getFocus` returns the target path of the TextField object. Otherwise, it returns the Text Field's variable name.