I’m still alive

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I haven’t wrote anything in about a month but that does’t mean I forgot about my blog and you (my reader, hopefully there are some). I took short vacation and traveled to Edinburgh Scotland, I had really great time but I cough a nasty cold and right now I have a tissue stuffed into my nose. I try to catch up with all the news and also my work. As it comes to the news few days ago AIR had his second birthday, also Flash Player 10.1 beta 3 came out the performance is really mind blowing. I started a cooperation with O’Reilly I will be reviewing some books for them so stay tuned! I am also working on a blog post on ‘How to earn money as Flash Developer‘ I hope you will like it ;)

Recently I finished (almost) a full flash website for one of my clients, it’s not hosted yet I will post a link when its finished, also I am working on new website template for ActiveDen it will be aimed for creative people (photographers, designer etc.) you can see some live preview here. Right now it’s alpha version, there will be much more modules and the graphics will be improved.

Yesterday I tried to implement a mouse scroll event for my scrollbar, I had some issues because this is not so easy if you want to consider OS X users. For Mac users Flash doesn’t respond to the MouseEvent.MOUSE_WHEEL event so there are two fairly easy workarounds to implement this:
- the first one (more complex) uses javascript http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/flash/as30-mousewheel-on-mac-os-x
- the second one is very easy to use (I’m using this one) http://blog.earthbrowser.com/2009/01/simple-solution-for-mousewheel-events.html
For those of you having trouble with detecting a mouse wheel event on mac this is the solution :)

P.S In the preview of my template the scroll wont work because the server version of the template is from few days back.