Tabindex stopping at 20.

[serialnuker]

I have been working on a project that has some 54 input text boxes (it is a form). These text boxes are inside of a movie clip. I have set up the tabindexs on all of the input boxes all the way to 54. I have also given a name to each box (eg. box1=tabindex1 box2=tabindex2). There is also a checkbox button in the movie clip.
The problem is that when I am tabbing through the boxes, after box number 20 the focus does not go to box number 21. I am still able to manually select textbox 20 but if I try tabbing to textbox21 the focus still disappears and textbox21 is still not selected. If I select textbox21 manually and tab from there it works. It seems that the disconnect is the transition from textbox20 to textbox21.
I have no clue where the focus goes and I have tried a couple of things that still did not work.

I have tried using action script instead of using MX2004 Pro's tabindex accessibility option. The action script used tabindex as well.

I have tried shifting the tabindexs so that box20 did not get tabindex 20, and the new selection focus after 20 would still not be 21.

I have tried searching google for countless hours and still nothing has resolved this issue.

The darnedest thing is if I select box 54 and "Shift+Tab" to make the selections go in reverse order ever thing works FINE!! It will go from 54 to 1 with ease, but if I try to tab through everything the focus manager disappears after 20.


I really appreciate any help that can be given.

If anyone knows the answer please, please let me know!

[MrMadison]

huh...lol, Thats a weird problem.
Could you show us a file? Or actionscript? Or...something?

[serialnuker]

I do not want to post the fla, but if you could send me an email I will send you the fla privately.

I appreciate your quick response.

My email is serialnuker@gmail.com

[MrMadison]

I emailed you. Hope I can help.

[MrMadison]

Anyway, I emailed you back...and I couldn't find the problem...
I saw your problem, and messed with it, but nothing worked and your AS seemed right.

[JacobHaug]

I think the tab index is only designed to go up to 20...lol. Try making a page 2 on that form. I mean after 20 input boxes that is enough to overwhelm the user.

[MrMadison]

If it only went up to 20 than why did it go from 21-54 perfectly fine? Am I missing something...lol..not again..

[JacobHaug]

hahaha...it depends on how you are coding it and how you organize your input fields.

[serialnuker]

I am still very confused by all of this, I think it has something to do with the toolbar_mc being accessible to the tabindex. Is there a way to make something tabeinex disabled, I tried doing a tabenabled = false but it did not work, and if i take away the accessibility it makes the toolbar movie not work at all. I REALLY need help on this. I appreciate everyone at least giving it a shot ..

Thanks all,
Serial

[serialnuker]

I searched high and low and could not find a solution. I ended up just making everything but the text boxes tabenabled = false and setting the childtab to false as well, this meant I had to settle for the default left-to-right tab order . If any one ever runs into the please let me know and we can give adobe a shout to try and fix it!!