Archive for category Web Design
Flash and the Scroll Wheel in the Browser
Posted by Scott in Adobe RIA, Blog, Web Browsers, Web Design, Web Development on December 9, 2010
I have built many AS3 flash apps before, but on this one project I needed to enable scrolling with the mouse wheel. I added a flash scrollpane but it would not respond to the mouse wheel. So I tried adding an event listener to the entire stage to see if I could capture any mouse wheel event. No luck with that either. Countless searches turned up maybe two possible resolutions to the problem, but they did not work either.
The resolution was out there to find, but I did not find it because I didn’t use the right keywords.
The resolution revealed to me was the parameter called “wmode”. The wmode param has three values; opaque, transparent, window(default). While normally most people do not set this parameter, I have a habit of setting it due to it’s necessity when building flash widgets for various web pages. In this case, if you set wmode to either transparent or opaque, the flash will not detect the mouse scroll wheel at all. So be sure not to set this parameter. If you do set it to “window” otherwise your flash app will not detect the mouse wheel events.
Continuous Site Development
Posted by Scott in Customer Service, Web Design, Web Development on August 9, 2006
I apologize about not updating the website in three months. When working on everyone else’s website, it’s very easy to neglect your own. With most of my jobs come from sources other than my website, and having time to spend with my family, there is no time or urgent need to constantly work on my website.
Remember to gradually add to and evolve your website, but not at the cost of your core business and family. I may even need to hire someone to keep my site up to date. :)
Free Website Color Schemer
Posted by Scott in Web Design on May 9, 2006
Picking colors for a website can provide quite a challenge. There are many things to conisder such as the audience you are designing for, the feeling you want to project, and the optimum placement of the colors for best visibility.
CoffeeCup Software is offering their Website Color Schemer free for those who link back to them. If you want to get your free color schemer, visit:
http://www.coffeecup.com/linktous/.
