FocusManager.sendDefaultPushButtonEvent()

Availability

Flash Player 6.0.79.

Edition

Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004

Usage

focusManager.sendDefaultPushButtonEvent()

Parameters

None.

Returns

Nothing.

Description

Method; sends a click event to listener objects registered to the default push button. Use this method to programmatically send a click event.

Example

The following code triggers the default push button click event and fills in the user name and password fields when a user selects the CheckBox instance chb (the check box would be labeled "Automatic Login"):

name_txt.tabIndex = 1;
password_txt.tabIndex = 2;
chb.tabIndex = 3;
submit_ib.tabIndex = 4;

focusManager.defaultPushButton = submit_ib;

chbObj = new Object();
chbObj.click = function(o){
  if (chb.selected == true){
    name_txt.text = "Jody";
    password_txt.text = "foobar";
    focusManager.sendDefaultPushButtonEvent();
  } else {
    name_txt.text = "";
    password_txt.text = "";
  }
}
chb.addEventListener("click", chbObj);

submitObj = new Object();
submitObj.click = function(o){
  if (password_txt.text != "foobar"){
    trace("error on submit");
  } else {
    trace("Yeah! sendDefaultPushButtonEvent worked!");
  }
}
submit_ib.addEventListener("click", submitObj);