If you want to turn it off completely, there is a compiler setting. Go to project --> properties --> Flex Compiler. Then uncheck the "Enable integration with browser navigation" option. This should disable the forward/back browser buttons from interacting with the swf. If you only want to turn it off for certain navigation components, you're correct, you'll need to use:
<mx:ViewStack historyManagementEnabled="false"/> -TH --- In [email protected], "flexaustin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it possible to shutoff or browserManager for certain components or > for the entire application? > > So after you do the following: > > browserManager = BrowserManager.getInstance(); > browserManager.init("", "Welcome"); > // browserUrlChange just gets the > fragment on startup > browserUrlChange(); > > Can you now shut off or de-init the browserManager instance for > certain components or the entire app? Or can you put a setting in > your children components to not notify the browserManager? > > I know you can do historyManagementEnabled="false" for certain > navigator components, but since historyManagementEnabled is set to > false by browserManager and I set it manually in the application tag I > know its off. > > The problem I am having is that I have custom component that contains > several child components that go very deep. So when I navigate in my > component and all the children change IE7 makes several hundred > clicking sounds for change of each child so it clicks for about 3 > mintues each time you navigate. > > I know I can shut off the clicking sound in my windows settings, but I > don't want all my users to have to do this. >

