Can one prevent Chrome causing an infinite loop when displaying alerts on the focus event, without disabling and re-enabling the event?

Question

Consider the following code. If I click in cmbMonkeys, it causes an infinite loop of alert messages in Google Chrome. My workaround for cmbPeople works fine. Does anyone

Answer 1

With a simple state-handler, maybe?

var isFocus = false;
function cmbPeople_CallFocusHandler(control) {
    if(!focus){
        focus = true;
        cmbPeople_OnFocusHandler();
    }
}

function cmbPeople_CallBlurHandler(){
    isFocus = false;
}