How to prevent user mouse-click interactivity with Flex Spark slider?

Question

I am using Flex Spark Slider as a time-line for a Flex video player custom component I have created.

I want to prevent the user from clicking on the slider and changing its value, but at the same time I should be able to change the value of the slider programmatically.

Setting the "enabled" property for the slider to "false" doesn't help as then I am not able to change the slider value programmatically.

Any clue, how to achieve this behavior?

Answer 1

If you only have a single element that needs to have the mouse disabled, use the mouseEnabled property. If however you have child elements on a particular object that you want to cascade the disabling of the mouse events to, make sure to set the mouseChildren property as well. This second one has caught me before when I was still getting a response to mouse events even though I though I had disabled them. For what you need, sounds like setting mouseEnabled should be enough.