mouseWheelEnabled (TextField.mouseWheelEnabled property)

A Boolean value that indicates whether Flash Player should automatically scroll multiline text fields when the mouse pointer clicks a text field and the user rolls the mouse wheel. By default, this value is true. This property is useful if you want to prevent mouse wheel scrolling of text fields, or implement your own text field scrolling.

Example

The following example creates two text fields. The scrollable_txt field has the mouseWheelEnabled property set to true, so scrollable_txt scrolls when you click the field and roll the mouse wheel. The nonscrollable_txt field does not scroll if you click the field and roll the mouse wheel.

var font_array:Array = TextField.getFontList().sort();

this.createTextField("scrollable_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 10, 240, 320);
scrollable_txt.border = true;
scrollable_txt.wordWrap = true;
scrollable_txt.multiline = true;
scrollable_txt.text = font_array.join("\n");

this.createTextField("nonscrollable_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 260, 10, 240, 320);
nonscrollable_txt.border = true;
nonscrollable_txt.wordWrap = true;
nonscrollable_txt.multiline = true;
nonscrollable_txt.mouseWheelEnabled = false;
nonscrollable_txt.text = font_array.join("\n");

If your SWF file includes a version 2 component, use the version 2 components' DepthManager class instead of the MovieClip.getNextHighestDepth() method, which is used in this example.

mouseWheelEnabled (TextField.mouseWheelEnabled property)

Example

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