How do I make flex only consume mouse scroll and keyboard events when it's useful, and otherwise pass it on to the browser?

Question

This one\'s been irking me for a while. When I\'m using the mouse scroll wheel to scroll up and down in a webpage, and a flash movie comes into the path of the cursor, the scrol

Answer 1

Communication between the browser and flash is done via ExternalInterface. ExternalInterface allow you to call ActionScript methods from JavaScript and vice-versa.

Good luck with that because experience shows it's often painfull to deal with keyboard shortcuts and browser inconstancy