Flex: Multiple TextInput focus issue

Question

The issue that I've been confronted with for some time now is that a TextInput never loses focus.

I tried to solve this issue by putting stage.focus=null on the click event of the Application . However, this prevents the TextInput from ever getting the focus. This can be solved by having stopPropagation on the TextInput . This may be a solution.

What I want to achieve is to have the TextInput lose focus on click outside, on another TextInput or any other element.

Can you recommend another way to do it?

Answer 1

Try this,

textInput.addEventListener(FlexMouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN_OUTSIDE, forceFocusOut);

private function forceFocusOut(e:Event):void{
   stage.focus = null;
}