FlashLabWeb Experiments by Brian Wiltshire

In this quick tutorial you can learn how to add a custom context menu to you flash content. You can add a menu to a specific MovieClip or to the whole Stage area.  I will show you both methods.

1. Create a new movie in flash.
2. Create a new movieClip and give it an instance name of “context_mc”
3. Copy this code ito the first frame of your new flash document. Make sure you paste it in the frame and not on the movieclip.

//Hide the message
message_txt._visible=false;

// Assign the functions to the custom context menu

function menu1() {
getURL(“http://www.brianwiltshire.net”);
}
function menu2() {
getURL(“http://www.brianwiltshire.net/lab”);
}
function menu3() {
message_txt._visible=true;
}
function menu4() {
message_txt._visible=false;
}

// Create the menu
contextMenu = new ContextMenu();
contextMenu.hideBuiltInItems(); // hides the build-in menu items (except Settings)
// Call the functions
contextMenu.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem(“Brian Wiltshire – Flash Website”, menu1));
contextMenu.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem(“FlashLab – Experiments”, menu2));
contextMenu.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem(“Show message”, menu3));
contextMenu.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem(“Hide message”, menu4));

// associates the contextMenu with the context_mc
context_mc.menu = contextMenu;
// you can also associate the menu with the whole stage by adding
//_root.menu = contextMenu;

4.Test your movie.

It should look like this. When you right click on the movieClip you should see the custom menu. If you right click on the stage it should be the standard flash context menu. You can change this by uncommenting the last line of code. _root.menu = contextMenu

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