Controlling Tab between input fields.

[iceflyin]

This is kinda odd, whenever I hit tab... The writing cursor skips to a seemingly random input field, instead of simply going to the right until the end, then the next row. The input fields are kinda close, but everything is symmetrical. Any ideas about how to control the behavior of input forms?

See what I'm talking about:
http://www.designmichael.com/flashyrss/usercp.php

Just hold down tab... It's rather hilariously random... lol! In HTML forms, tabs simply go left to right, then next row.

[glidealong]

Click on ' Accessibility Settings' on the properties panel for each object on stage and specify the tab index in the text box provided. You can enter values from 1 to 65535 for tab indes and the tab control will follow the tab order specified in the panel.
More on Accessibility Options in Flash
http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/flash/

If you dont want tab functionality you can specify the tabEnabled property to be false. By default buttons, movieclips with buttonmode set to true and input text fields have tabEnabled set to true and follow the tab order specified by flash.

[LittleFenris]

A bit more on the tabIndex property:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/langref/flash/display/InteractiveObject.html#tabIndex