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I have a full screen flex application and I want the user to be able to scroll using browser scrollbars. I don’t need mousewheel in the flex application and flex appears to block mousewheel events within itself. So mousewheel events do nothing.
You can do this pretty easily through external interface. Whenever your swf receives a MouseEvent.MOUSE_WHEEL event, call a javascript function that scrolls the page. jQuery can to that for you.
Scroll events are handled differently in different browsers/operating systems so you’re going to have to do a bunch of testing. For example, last time I checked you actually had to send scroll events from javascript into flash on OSX if you wanted them to work. Which is good news for you, as the scroll wheel should work on the page(not the swf) by default.
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