@Nirav. Have you checked BrowserManager and BrowserHistory. I haven’t looked into that but if ctrl-N changes the browserHistory, you should be able to detect it.
http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorials/flex-browsermanager-browser-history-and-the-back-button-fun

@JGarrido. You can pass anything from javascript to Flash or from Flash to javascript. You then need to write the javascript code that will perform the required action. I am not sure you can trigger a ctrl-tab action with javascript, though. I never tried.

Check out the langref for ExternalInterface. For instance, that’s some code that I use to display debugging messages within a division under the flash application.

In Flex:
private static function jsMsg(msg:String):void
{
ExternalInterface.call(“sendToJavaScript”, msg);
}

On the html page, within a javascript block.
function sendToJavaScript(val) {
document.getElementById(‘flash-debug’).innerHTML += val + ”;
}

To do the opposite and send stuff from javascript to Flash

On the html page, in a script block:
function callToActionscript(flash, str) {
getFlashMovie(flash).sendToActionscript(str);
}
In Flex:
ExternalInterface.addCallback(“sendToActionscript”, callFromJavaScript);

function callFromJavaScript(param):void {
// do something with param
}

Surely, if you wanted to open tabs – I am not sure if that’s something that will happen.

Your issues seems more like Flex focus handling issue. Could you not just focus on the current container? That way, the next time tab gets processed, it will go to the correct new container?

This is a hack, but similar approach worked for me in AdvancedDataGrid where I wanted to create new rows in the grid when you press enter on the last row.

HTH.

:Nirav

That is now working, but the Tab is being processed twice: once by my own event handler, then a second time, causing it not to move to the SetFocus field, but one the next.

Did you manage to solve the issue?

thanks, Johan

Need to clean this up and see if it works always.

Currently, both Flex and HTML textarea have focus, but neither show whatever I type! They’ve become zombies!