I have this same problem with the mouse_wheel event getting caught by something on top of my canvas that I want to scroll. Except instead of a TextArea, it's an HBox. And HBox has no mouseWheelHandler to override. How can I stop the HBox from keeping the event to itself?
--- In [email protected], "toofah_gm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a Canvas with a number of TextArea components, Images, Sprites, > etc, on top of it. The Canvas itself is a scrollable area. When I > use the Mouse Wheel over most parts of the Canvas, it scrolls up and > down. If my mouse is on top of one of my TextAreas, the Canvas does > not scroll when I use the Mouse Wheel. This is the case even though > my TextAreas are not editable nor selectable. > > Is there a way to get my Mouse Wheel to scroll my Canvas even when it > is over my TextArea components? >

