# Frustrations with comboBox focus

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/frustrations-with-combobox-focus/188002>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 3, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/frustrations-with-combobox-focus/188002 "2006-05-03T18:44:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![flashpipe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/839c29/32.png) [@flashpipe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/flashpipe)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/frustrations-with-combobox-focus/188002/1 "2006-05-03T18:44:50Z")

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I’ve got a movie that loads a movieClip which has several comboboxes and listboxes in it.

After figuring out that I needed to lockroot my loaded mc so that the components worked, now I’m fighting the battle to remove the focus areas so those green rectangles don’t stay active.

I managed to set up listeners for most of the components (side question here…is there a way to set up one listener for several components just to remove the focus??), and got everything working EXCEPT…

I can’t get rid of the green rectangle on the dropdown for the comboboxes!!

I’m removing the focus from the combobox itself with the following:

```auto
var bag_cbListener:Object = new Object();
this.bag_cb.addEventListener("change", bag_cbListener);
bag_cbListener.change = function() {
    bag_cb.drawFocus="";
    bag_cb.dropdown.drawFocus="";//this doens't seem to affect the dropdown at all
}

```

and I’ve tried to set up a listener specifically for the dropdown, but that didn’t work…

I put the files up at [http://www.brianwpiper.com/combobox.zip](http://www.brianwpiper.com/combobox.zip) and you can see the problem if you run the test.swf, which loads in the testCB.swf.

Thanks!!

edit added…

I had thought that I had fixed the problem on the one listbox I had also, but then I scrolled the list, which apparently isn’t handled within the “change” function, so now I guess I need ANOTHER listener to handle the scrolling…this seems a little crazy…

Thanks!!