Disable all buttons tab by default?

[pixelmana]

hi there, is it possible, in flash8, to disable the tab ordering functions for all any buttons or movie clips? My situation is that I have a plenty of swf loaded by loadMovie(). It is so dummy to hard code to disable all tab ordering for their buttons/movieclips inside the swf files. Now, I have to disable them in every swf files or frames.

Thanks so much.

[Billy T]

could use tabEnabled = false to disable them and something like

for (i in _root) {
if (typeof (_root[i]) == "MovieClip") {
_root[i].tabEnabled=false;
}
}

[Flash Gordon]

Anyone got any idea why I can't get a trace of the movieclips on _root?

function wave() {
trace("wave called");
for (i in _root) {
if (typeof (_root[i]) == "MovieClip") {
//if (typeof (i) == "MovieClip") {
mc = _root[i];
trace(mc);
//tweenSize(mc);
}
}
}
wave();

[Flash Gordon]

Fixed:

function wave() {
trace("wave called");
for (i in _root) {
//trace(i);
i = eval(i);
//trace(i+" = "+typeof (i));
if (typeof (i) == "movieclip") {
trace("fired");
trace(i);
//tweenSize(mc);
}
}
}
wave();

[Billy T]

sry it should have been movieclip not MovieClip

function wave() {
trace("wave called");
for (i in _root) {
trace(typeof (_root[i]));
if (typeof (_root[i]) == "movieclip") {
trace("fired");
trace(i);
}
}
}
wave();

[Flash Gordon]

thanks, bud. I just caught that and edited my post!

[bluesammy33]

If you want to disable tab ordering, I've found this works pretty well:
1. Set the tabIndex of any of your MovieClips or Buttons to 1
2.Set the tabEnabled property of that same MovieClip or Button to false.

mybutton_btn.tabIndex = 1;
mybutton_btn.tabEnabled = false;