Comments on: OS X Mouse Wheel Support for Flex 2 Applications

By: Thomas Q. Brady

Thomas Q. Brady — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:51:35 +0000

Awesome. Thanks!!

By: Kelso’s Corner » Blog Archive » Mac OS X Mouse Wheel Support for ActionScript 3 Flash Applications (v.2+) (Hasseg)

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:47:18 +0000

[...] I’ve finally updated the solution I’ve made earlier for enabling Mac OS X mouse wheel support in Flex applications to a second version. I didn’t want to continue adding stuff into the original post, so I decided [...]

By: Pathfinder Development » Mouse wheel (scroll) Event in Flash Player running on a Mac

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:59:37 +0000

[...] You can find the full explenation on this blog post. [...]

By: Ali Rantakari

Ali Rantakari — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:41:58 +0000

Hey everyone, just posting this into the comments here in case someone has subscribed and would thus like to be informed of this.

I’ve just made a post about the new version (2) of this solution — check it out:

http://hasseg.org/blog/?p=138

By: The GAE SWF Project version 1.34 at Aral Balkan

The GAE SWF Project version 1.34 at Aral Balkan — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:17:18 +0000

[...] the mouse wheel work in Flash on OS X (it doesn’t by default) by using Ali Rantakari’s excellent ExternalMouseWheelSupport package. The The GAE SWF Project version 1.34 article by Aral Balkan, unless otherwise expressly [...]

By: Jamie McDaniel

Jamie McDaniel — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:16:47 +0000

Just a note. The PixelBreaker solution will work with all Flex applications, not just AS3 projects. Just change the line in the PixelBreaker example:

MacMouseWheel.setup(stage);

to:

MacMouseWheel.setup(Application.application.stage);

I put this line in my applicationComplete event handler, although it may work elsewhere.

By: Ali Rantakari

Ali Rantakari — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:52:28 +0000

Thanks for the info, Melvyn. I Put a link to the top of the page for that to guide people looking for an AS3-only solution there.

By: Melvyn

Melvyn — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:45:21 +0000

PixelBreaker has updated his mac mousewheel support for AS3 : http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/flash/as30-mousewheel-on-mac-os-x/

By: Johan Sundhage

Johan Sundhage — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:32:26 +0000

Yay!! This made my day. Thanks thanks thanks.

I made it work with Flash AS3.

By: Melvyn

Melvyn — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:21:20 +0000

http://toolateatnight.be/macmousewheel/

Sources : http://toolateatnight.be/macmousewheel/mac_mousewheel_AS3.zip

I modified the class in a new one “ExternalMouseWheelSupportFlash.as” with the Flex-specific stuff stripped out.