# \[FMX\]Keeping focus onto parent swf

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-keeping-focus-onto-parent-swf/296032>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 8, 2009, 9:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-keeping-focus-onto-parent-swf/296032 "2009-09-08T21:45:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![melacroso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@melacroso](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/melacroso)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 9:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-keeping-focus-onto-parent-swf/296032/1 "2009-09-08T21:45:32Z")

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Hiya,

wonder if anyone can help,

I have a parent swf that has a menu system that contains some btns that when clicked then loads subsquent swf into a loader\_mc that is sitting on the stage.

The issue i’m having is that the menu animation initiation (it slides into view from the bottom of the stage when the \_ymouse \> 590 ) is unresponsive when the swf has successfully been loaded into the loader\_mc clip.

I was thinking… do i need to set some sort of focus to retain the menu animation? how would this affect how the cursor would then react to buttons, etc in the swf that is now in the loader\_mc.

make sense?

perhaps if anyone knows how the focus stuff works in actionscript. The code I think is from Flash MX.

Thanks chaps!

:samus\_v2: