# What's going on with Selection.setFocus(); in FlashMX2004?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-going-on-with-selection-setfocus-in-flashmx2004/116704
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**Created:** [July 20, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-going-on-with-selection-setfocus-in-flashmx2004/116704 "2004-07-20T19:34:44Z")
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### Author:  [@Bojan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Bojan)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-going-on-with-selection-setfocus-in-flashmx2004/116704/1 "2004-07-20T19:34:44Z")
In Flash MX it works just fine, I copy/paste code to MX2004 and it doesen’t work ? :-/
this.createTextField (“txtUpis\_txt”, 1, 0, 0, 300, 30);
txtUpis\_txt.type = “input”;
txtUpis\_txt.tabEnabled = true;
txtUpis\_txt.selectable = true;
txtUpis\_txt.border = true;
Selection.setFocus (“txtUpis\_txt”);
Anyone know reason??
thanx
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-going-on-with-selection-setfocus-in-flashmx2004/116704/2 "2004-07-20T19:36:44Z")
What isn’t working about it?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-going-on-with-selection-setfocus-in-flashmx2004/116704/3 "2004-07-21T15:06:29Z")
> [@zao](#):
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> What isn’t working about it?
There’s no cursor appear in text field initialy, in FlashMX it work’s just fine.
You can baypass that bug with use of setInterval() function but…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-going-on-with-selection-setfocus-in-flashmx2004/116704/4 "2004-07-21T15:07:50Z")
> [@Flashmatazz](#):
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> use it without the quotes:
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> ```auto
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> Selection.setFocus (txtUpis_txt);
>
> ```
Unfortunately no…