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Subject: Re: FlexJS mouseEnabled
From: Harbs <harbs.lists@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 23:20:43 +0300
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On Aug 15, 2016, at 11:05 PM, Alex Harui <aharui@adobe.com> wrote:

> On 8/15/16, 12:54 PM, "Harbs" <harbs.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
>> I can=92t find any way in FlexJS to set the mouse-interactivity of an
>> object. (i.e. a la mouseEnabled in Flash)
>=20
> Is the goal to build something that isn't ever mouse-able or to be =
able to
> switch its mouse-ability at runtime?

Both.

>=20
> In my mind, the former might be some base class for non-interactive
> objects.  For runtime switching, I imagined that enabled/disabled =
would be
> a bead and work with the view to do whatever needs to be done.  Some
> disabling philosophies is to change the state of the object, others =
blur
> and/or mask, others don't change the visuals at all.
>=20
> On the HTML side, I would think that at worse, the "disabling" could
> capture all mouse events and stop their propagation.  Other
> implementations would use CSS or whatever.
>=20
> My 2 cents,
> -Alex

FWIW Here=92s some hacks for getting it to work in IIE.[1]

I guess we=92ll do an =93interactivity=94 Bead. Any suggestions on a =
good name?

=
[1]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5855135/css-pointer-events-property-=
alternative-for-ie=