Mouse wheel (scroll) Event in Flash Player running on a Mac

Sasha Dzeletovic, Thursday, September 18, 2008 @ 1:04 pm

One of the great advantages of Flash technology is cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility. That is almost entirely true but a few things did slip Adobe.

A big issue that was overlooked is support for mouse wheel event on Mac OSX. A pretty basic functionality you would think. If your interface is heavily relying on mouse scrolling, your audience on Mac's will probably have a "so how does this work" blank stare.

Google didn't overlook this in their implementation of Maps, but most apps I've seen online did.

There is a very nice and simple solution to this issue coming from hasseg.org and I find it very important to put this little effort in to maintain same look and feel of application interface across platforms.

Solution is executed with help from JavaScript. Mouse wheel events get passed to Flash player and parsed to simulate regular functionality.

A lot of praise to hasseg.org for coming up with and publishing working source code of this solution.

You can find the full explenation on this blog post.

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