Flex Examples » Mouse http://blog.flexexamples.com Just a bunch of Adobe Flex Examples Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:09:51 +0000 en hourly 1 Setting mouse cursors in Flash Player 10 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/11/03/setting-mouse-cursors-in-flash-player-10/ http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/11/03/setting-mouse-cursors-in-flash-player-10/#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:49:05 +0000 Peter deHaan http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/11/03/setting-mouse-cursors-in-flash-player-10/ The following example shows how you can set mouse cursors in Flash Player 10 by setting the Mouse object’s cursor property to one of the static constants in the MouseCursor class.

Full code after the jump.

To use the following code, you must have Flash Player 10 and a Flex Gumbo SDK installed [...]]]> The following example shows how you can set mouse cursors in Flash Player 10 by setting the Mouse object’s cursor property to one of the static constants in the MouseCursor class.

Full code after the jump.

To use the following code, you must have Flash Player 10 and a Flex Gumbo SDK installed in your Flex Builder 3. For more information on downloading and installing the Gumbo SDK into Flex Builder 3, see “Using the beta Gumbo SDK in Flex Builder 3″.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/11/03/setting-mouse-cursors-in-flash-player-10/ -->
<FxApplication name="Mouse_cursor_test"
        xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009">
    <layout>
        <BasicLayout />
    </layout>

    <HGroup horizontalCenter="0" top="10">
        <FxButton label="{MouseCursor.ARROW}"
                click="Mouse.cursor = MouseCursor.ARROW;" />
        <FxButton label="{MouseCursor.AUTO}"
                click="Mouse.cursor = MouseCursor.AUTO;" />
        <FxButton label="{MouseCursor.BUTTON}"
                click="Mouse.cursor = MouseCursor.BUTTON;" />
        <FxButton label="{MouseCursor.HAND}"
                click="Mouse.cursor = MouseCursor.HAND;" />
        <FxButton label="{MouseCursor.IBEAM}"
                click="Mouse.cursor = MouseCursor.IBEAM;" />
    </HGroup>

    <VGroup horizontalCenter="0" verticalCenter="0">
        <TextInput text="mx:TextInput" />
        <Button label="mx:Button" buttonMode="true" />
    </VGroup>

</FxApplication>

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This entry is based on a beta version of the Flex Gumbo SDK and therefore is very likely to change as development of the Flex SDK continues. The API can (and will) change causing examples to possibly not compile in newer versions of the Flex Gumbo SDK.

 
]]> http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/11/03/setting-mouse-cursors-in-flash-player-10/feed/ 7 Detecting the mouse scroll wheel in a Flex application http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/28/detecting-the-mouse-scroll-wheel-in-a-flex-application/ http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/28/detecting-the-mouse-scroll-wheel-in-a-flex-application/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:23:11 +0000 Peter deHaan http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/28/detecting-the-mouse-scroll-wheel-in-a-flex-application/ The following example demonstrates a very simple Flex application which listens for the mouseWheel event (represented here by the MouseEvent.MOUSE_WHEEL constant) and updates a Label control on the display list.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/28/detecting-the-mouse-scroll-wheel-in-a-flex-application/ --> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="vertical" verticalAlign="middle" backgroundColor="white" creationComplete="init()">   <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ private function init():void { systemManager.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_WHEEL, doMouseWheel); }   private [...]]]> The following example demonstrates a very simple Flex application which listens for the mouseWheel event (represented here by the MouseEvent.MOUSE_WHEEL constant) and updates a Label control on the display list.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/28/detecting-the-mouse-scroll-wheel-in-a-flex-application/ -->
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
        layout="vertical"
        verticalAlign="middle"
        backgroundColor="white"
        creationComplete="init()">
 
    <mx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            private function init():void {
                systemManager.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_WHEEL, doMouseWheel);
            }
 
            private function doMouseWheel(evt:MouseEvent):void {
                num += evt.delta;
            }
        ]]>
    </mx:Script>
 
    <mx:Number id="num">0</mx:Number>
 
    <mx:NumberFormatter id="numberFormatter" />
 
    <mx:ApplicationControlBar dock="true">
        <mx:Label text="Click the stage and scroll mouse wheel to begin." />
    </mx:ApplicationControlBar>
 
    <mx:Label text="{numberFormatter.format(num)}"
            fontSize="96" />
 
</mx:Application>

View source is enabled in the following example.

Oops, I had to remove the SWF since it was competing with IE’s scroll (I’m using a weird <iframe /> solution for inline samples). To see the sample, click here.

And no, the number has absolutely no significance. It is just a quick way to see if the mouse wheel was responding.

 
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