# Capturing mouse wheel functionality. (Focus.)

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/capturing-mouse-wheel-functionality-focus/242909>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 31, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/capturing-mouse-wheel-functionality-focus/242909 "2007-10-31T16:44:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anogar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@Anogar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Anogar)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/capturing-mouse-wheel-functionality-focus/242909/1 "2007-10-31T16:44:47Z")

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I’m trying to cause my flash movie with a custom scroller to behave like a typical frame or something - I want it to capture the mousewheel on click. Right now both the Flash movie and the external page scroll, which isn’t really optimal.

Any ideas?