Avoid FocusOut event trigerred when apllication loses focus

Question

Dear all,

I have done an ovveride of the standard TextInput component
In this component I have :

addEventListener( FocusEvent.FOCUS_OUT, handleFocusOut ); 

• My method is trigerred when the field loose focus for another field (nice)
• Problem : It is trigerred alose when the whole flex application lose focus (when my field has the current focus inside my form)

Questions :

• What have I done wrong ?
• Is there a way to avoid doing stuff when it is a application-focusout-event ?

Regards

Answer 1

I am not sure why this is behaving this way. But one solution might be to have an eventListener for FOCUS_OUT event at the application level and call stopImmediatePropagation().

Answer 2

Thanks for your help !
Here is what I have done in my component (textinput child)

Add two event handler :
- addEventListener( Event.ACTIVATE, handleEventActivate );
- addEventListener( Event.DEACTIVATE, handleEventDeActivate );

They update the internal field _isApplicationActive
I handle the focusOut event :
addEventListener( FocusEvent.FOCUS_OUT, handleFocusOut );
in the method I have
if (!_isApplicationActive) { event.stopImmediatePropagation(); }

With this my focusOut handling functions are not called when the app is deactivated Because => DECACTIVATE events are called before FocusOut events !