# Flash8: Disappearing (or non-appearing) carat

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash8-disappearing-or-non-appearing-carat/287444>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 1, 2009, 5:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash8-disappearing-or-non-appearing-carat/287444 "2009-05-01T05:13:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![newtome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c4cdca/32.png) [@newtome](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/newtome)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2009, 5:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash8-disappearing-or-non-appearing-carat/287444/1 "2009-05-01T05:13:06Z")

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I’m quite new to Flash but have created several useful, but basic things.

My current project involves the display of FlashPaper2 swf’s in response to specific passwords. So, I started with the Adobe FlashPaperDemo and added some bits, namely, a logon screen with one input field and a little code.

A test of the movie showed that I must first click on the input field before the cursor would appear and I could enter a password. Sensing that this was due to the field not having the focus, I added Selection.setFocus(“password”); on the timeline. This allowed me to enter a password without first clicking but there was no blinking cursor(carat).

If I enter an incorrect password, the code executes another setFocus and the cursor appears. When the movie is tested, there is no carat but when I play the swf in FlashPlayer8, there is a carat. When I browse to the HTML page containing the swf, it plays OK but no carat.

I’ve done quite a bit of searching and reading on the web and found lots of discussion on this topic but I can’t say I understand all it, so it’s quite likely that I’m missing something important.