# Can flash detect loss of focus?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-flash-detect-loss-of-focus/190274>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 9, 2006, 10:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-flash-detect-loss-of-focus/190274 "2006-06-09T22:56:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Psaldorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@Psaldorn](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Psaldorn)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 10:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-flash-detect-loss-of-focus/190274/1 "2006-06-09T22:56:43Z")

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Specifically - can Flash perform an action when it detects the user has click out of the aplication OR web browser it was embedded in?

I read a few ways that I could maybe pass the information from javascript but that seems clunky and may not even do what I want.

Imagine if you only wanted a movie to play and when the user clicks out of the flash it pauses it.

Any ideas? Been looking at FocusManager but it all seems individual component based - maybe I’m missing something obvious.

Thanks for any help (I did a search but to no avail)