Text field and mousewheel scrolling

[john beardsworth]

I've a dynamic text field, populated from an external file, and with a scrollbar. I'd also like it to respond to mousewheel or trackpad scrolling. I have tried setting mouseWheelEnabled to true, but that doesn't seem to do the job (and seems to require clicking the field anyway). What else should I be looking at? Would I also need so listen for the mousewheel or scrolling event?

John

[kglad]

if the mouse is over the textfield when the stage has focus your textfield will respond to the mousewheel. what is it that you're trying to do?

[john beardsworth]

I'm expecting the text field to scroll up or down. Sorry that wasn't clear.

[kglad]

and it will if your stage has focus and the mouse is over the textfield.

[john beardsworth]

So something explicit? Such as:

stage.focus = txtField;

That seems to have no effect. Could it be something to do with the text field being a library item, rather than being a new object added via code?

[kglad]

that won't work until your stage has focus. if this is a projector file, that will work. if this is going to be embedded in a web page, the user will need to click on your stage first.

[john beardsworth]

It's on a web page and the text field only becomes visible when a menu item is clicked.

John

[kglad]

your web page works for me.

[john beardsworth]

Thanks for checking. Were you using Windows? I have been working on my Mac laptop (OSX Leopard) and scrolling with the trackpad. But I tested on my Windows desktop (XP) and the page works. Could it be an OS difference?

[kglad]

i'm using windows and i tested in ff and ie both with fp 10.

[john beardsworth]

Same results on Windows FF and FP10. On Mac it was FF and Safari, FP10. Would you expect the OS to make the difference?

[kglad]

no, but there are differences and apple is pretty weird about the mouse wheel.

i just googled "mac os x mousewheel" and see all sorts of problems reported. check it out. maybe someone has a solution.

[john beardsworth]

Seems there are solutions but for every one there seems a disadvantage such as breaking scrolling in Windows or having to set wmode="opaque". In my movie's case, that would break the color management (needs to be transparent), so I think I'm just going to let Mac visitors drag scrollbars. Thanks for your help.

John

[kglad]

you're welcome.