Comments on: Enabling Scroll Wheel cross OS for Flash applications

By: Shane McCartney

Shane McCartney — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:06:12 +0000

Feel free to share and let us know what the solution is Marc, in my opinion Safari PC is a real edge case but it’s great you’re testing that.

By: marc

marc — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:43:39 +0000

hi guys,
this sample sadly doesn’t work for safari on Windows, just an FYI.
great work though, it has gotten me a step closer to my solution!

Thanks,
marc

By: designdrumm

designdrumm — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:05:24 +0000

Anyone have an example of how to get the scrollWheel to resize a movieClip? I have tried to modify this to do so, but alas I am no coder. I tried to incorporate a tween. maybe that is it, don’t know.

Any help would be great.

By: Shane McCartney

Shane McCartney — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:50:40 +0000

Hi Stewart
It’s pretty basic :
document.getElementById(Id).focus();

Though if you’re testing FireFox this won’t work as FireFox seems to ignore Flash in the tab index.

This example shows this http://www.flashdynamix.com/examples/ScrollWheel/index.html

By: stewart

stewart — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:38:41 +0000

Shane McCartney, thanks for your help.
I tried it, but it still didn’t work.
I think i have a problem adding an ID to my SWF file.

http://www.kulsdom.com/mousewheel/

By: Shane McCartney

Shane McCartney — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:38:24 +0000

Stewart,

If you need this it can easily be fixed by automatically focusing the Flash through Javascript in the HTML file.

By: stewart

stewart — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:35:09 +0000

Hi all,

I clicked this link using a pc with Internet Explorer http://www.flashdynamix.com/examples/ScrollWheel/index.html

Is it right that i first have to click the swf to enable the scrollwheel?

When i use my mac with firefox the scrollwheel works immediately without clicking the swf first.

any solutions for this problem?
(i tried focusing with a javascript, but no luck yet!)

Thanks!
Stewart

By: Shane McCartney

Shane McCartney — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:54:43 +0000

Hi Henry

You can use both the solutions a hack – the way to do this is keep the focus of the page always on the flash. When a scroll wheel event occurs in the Flash thats not on one of your scrollable Flash UI controls you can through Javascript & External Interface in scroll the page either up of down. I haven’t done an example of this but let me know if you get stuck.

Shane M

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:55:36 +0000

Hello

Is it right that the mouse wheel support for the SWF kills the mouse wheel support for the HTML that is around?

This happened in all Mac browsers. (Yes I deleted “overflow: hidden” in the CSS)

Henry

By: Shane McCartney

Shane McCartney — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:08:42 +0000

Hi dhead
Here’s an example http://www.flashdynamix.com/examples/ScrollWheel/index.html
and the source files used to build this are in this zip http://www.flashdynamix.com/examples/ScrollWheel/example.zip