275098 - I No cursor in Flash edit field

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Alan Burkhart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I built a web search tool from flash instead of html. It's located on the right
near the top of the page. It works, but the mouse pointer doesn't change
(remains an arrow) and I never can get a cursor in the input field. Still, once
I click it I can input text and everything else works okay.
This problem does not occur in IE6.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just try clicking the flash edit field. Nothing happens.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
no cursor in edit field and mouse pointer doesn't change for text.

Expected Results:  
Should have blinking cursor in edit field and mouse should change to text bar
when hovering over typed text.

It's worth noting that with IE, my "Yahoo Personal Site Search" generates a
generic results page. Firefox however, correctly opens my custom results page. I
have no clue why IE won't open it. I must assume that it's something to do with
how the two browsers communicate with Yahoo's server. As I'm still learning
flash, any tips here are appreciated for getting IE to open the correct page.
The techno-weenies at Yahoo know even less than I do!
Thanks and God Bless - Alan Burkhart

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Alan Burkhart]

I just updated FF and still have no blinking caret with a Flash text field. 
Also, the mouse pointer doesn't change to indicate that it's hovering over a 
text field. It remains an arrow.

If I click inside the Flash text field with FF, I can still type in it, but the 
caret (or cursor, if you prefer) isn't present. I can type, backspace, etc but 
the caret is never visible. To see the bug, you can visit my homepage. I used 
Flash instead html to create a websearch.
http://www.alanburkhart.com/index.html

Comment 3

[jackbarron]

Sometimes missing cursor in a textfield, or even doesn't allow a textefield to
receive special characters that you must type with a combination of keys : for
instance [Alt-Gr]+2 which sould provide a @ simply result in a "2".

Comment 4

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

WFM when using Flash Player 8.0r22
Reproduced when using Flash Player 7.0r19
Alan, are you using Flash Player 7?

Comment 5

[Simon D]

This problem you describe can be resolved by downloading the latest version of
Macromedia Flash Player.

Comment 6

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

The URL no longer exists, however, resolving as WFM based on comment 4.