How do I make flex only consume mouse scroll and keyboard events when it's useful, and otherwise pass it on to the browser?

Communication between the browser and flash is done via ExternalInterface. ExternalInterface allow you to call ActionScript methods from JavaScript and vice-versa.

I faced the same problem. But the solution I went for requires extensive changes if you have a complex UI already built in flex.

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