I just realized that the player takes care of mousewheel over textfields and not the Flex framework which is why event blocking isn't going to work. You can subclass TextArea, get to the underlying textField and set mouseWheelEnabled=false.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jayson Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 11:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Disable scrolling via mouse wheel Just tried those out.. still no luck.. I'm beginning to think this isn't going to work. I didn't know about the useCapture and priority for event listeners.. thought that was going to work. I don't really want to have to cut the string so it doesn't extend out of the TextArea because I use it other places, that seems like it would be a pain in the ass. Do you think this might be an issue of timing? like the eventListener isn't being added in time? I've tried calling it in creationComplete(for the TextArea and app), scroll, and mouseWheel.
