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Mac Mouse wheel support class for Flex

A while back Gabriel Bucknall posted a AS3 and JavaScript class that adds support for the mouse wheel on Flash Player on the Mac. If you didn't know mouse wheel support hasn't been available on Mac for a few versions now.

Anyway, I updated the code to add support for MXML and decoupled it from requiring swfobject. I also added a few of the fixes mentioned in the comments and added dynamic loading support which Flash doesn't seem to handle well (slight pause) so by default dynamic loading is off. But so what, you can drop it into your Flex projects willy nilly with one line of code:

PLAIN TEXT
XML:
  1. <managers:MouseWheelManager />

I also put the class in the SVN Repository so you can help make any changes. No one will. Lazy. But in case I'm wrong.

Demo - Project Files

Please vote on these issues:

http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-12415.

This entry was posted on Friday, November 28th, 2008 at 4:53 am and is filed under Flex. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

8 Responses to “Mac Mouse wheel support class for Flex”

  1. Marc says:
    November 28, 2008 at 5:18 am

    thanks for sharing!

  2. Peter says:
    December 8, 2009 at 5:32 pm

    Hello,
    Thanks for this mouse driven scrolling! I have a problem though. The swf works fine but when I upload it to my server the scrolling stops working. Am I missing something?

  3. mitch says:
    January 31, 2010 at 7:04 am

    Me too. I added flexcapacitor.swc to my project, and added these lines to my main mxml file:

    xmlns:managers="com.flexcapacitor.managers.*"

    But the mouse wheel still doesn't work on the Mac. (It does work when I point my browser to the URL of your demo.) Do I have to do something else like merge in your JavaScript files too? Thanks.

  4. Judah says:
    January 31, 2010 at 3:10 pm

    Hi. Yeah you have to modify the html template file (yourflexproject/html-template/index.template.html) and include the js file. in the demo you can view the source code and see how it is working.

  5. kofi says:
    May 7, 2010 at 3:31 pm

    wow..thanks so much! it works perfect !! what an annoying bug it was. thank you !!

  6. Marcus says:
    July 15, 2010 at 9:19 am

    nice, but this is not working for a Flex 4 spark Application

    Error:

    TypeError: Error #1034: Typumwandlung fehlgeschlagen: index@5bdd10a1 kann nicht in mx.core.Application umgewandelt werden.
    at com.flexcapacitor.managers::MouseWheelManager()[/Users/judahfrangipane/Documents/flex2/flexcapacitor/src/com/flexcapacitor/managers/MouseWheelManager.as:85]
    at index/_index_MouseWheelManager1_i()

  7. Judah says:
    July 17, 2010 at 6:57 am

    Hi Marcus,
    The version posted here is a few versions behind what's available in the repository. If that doesn't fix the issue could you please post the error message (in english) and I'll take a look! :)

  8. JanS says:
    August 28, 2010 at 4:31 am

    Hi Judah,

    cool work, but i've the same error marcus has. i need flex 4 spark support. please tell me where i can find the repository for an updated version.

    much thanks!

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