# What's going on with Selection.setFocus(); in FlashMX2004?

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**Created:** [July 20, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-going-on-with-selection-setfocus-in-flashmx2004/58218 "2004-07-20T19:34:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bojan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b782af/32.png) [@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-flashmx2004/58218/1 "2004-07-20T19:34:44Z")

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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://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@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-flashmx2004/58218/2 "2004-07-20T19:36:44Z")

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What isn’t working about it?

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**Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-going-on-with-selection-setfocus-in-flashmx2004/58218/3 "2004-07-20T21:43:36Z")

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use it without the quotes:

```auto

Selection.setFocus (txtUpis_txt);

```

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**Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-going-on-with-selection-setfocus-in-flashmx2004/58218/4 "2004-07-21T15:06:29Z")

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> [@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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**Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whats-going-on-with-selection-setfocus-in-flashmx2004/58218/5 "2004-07-21T15:07:50Z")

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> [@Flashmatazz](#):
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> use it without the quotes:
> 
> ```auto
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> Selection.setFocus (txtUpis_txt);
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> ```

Unfortunately no…