make a wish - right click
I’v reviewed quite a few Flash/Flex based startups (mostly Flash based) recently. There is just one thing I always do when get on to a rich Flash UI site, right-click on items (or Mac equivlent) to see what’s on the context menu. Always barely anything.
Looking into those AJAX rich sites such as Google Doc, you have all these rich right-click functions at finger tips. I don’t think Flash developers wouldn’t want to have similar things. I can’t say there is no way Flash/Flex can’t do it (we did in our apps). However, I do think it’s fundamentally Flash’s lack of context menu support.
I still remmber how hard to get Macromedia to get the file upload function out, now I wish very soon we can have a better Right-Click feature from Flash/Flex and applications take advantage of it.
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your link to google doc is wrong (doc.goolge.com) should be http://doc.google.com
Hi Moxie,
“I can’t say there is no way Flash/Flex can’t do it (we did in our apps)”
How did you do it? I am fairly new to flex and I hate the ugly right click menu on my flex apps. If you know any tricks to work around it .. do share.
Thank you,
Mrinal
Seems to have a solution here…
http://www.flex-flex.net/blog/article.asp?id=12
Hope they show the code and how they did it
Thanks Carlos …I would love to have that ability …. but that post is a month an a half old .. no code yet
Mrinal
Have you looked at the ContextMenu class in the flash.ui package? It looks like changes to the right click menu are pretty well supported already.
Hi Mike,
The ContextMenu I believe just allows you to add and remove options to the flash player right-click menu (the one that has “About Adobe Flash Player …” etc.) but we here are discussing the ability to replace this default(ugly) menu with a menu of our own … kinda like what you see here http://www.flex-flex.net/flex/RightClickMenu/RightClick.html
Mrinal
Hi Mike,
The ContextMenu I believe just allows you to add or remove options to the default flash player right-click menu (the one that has “About Adobe Flash Player …” etc.) but we here are discussing the ability to replace this default(ugly) menu with a menu of our own … kinda like what has been done here http://www.flex-flex.net/flex/RightClickMenu/RightClick.html
Mrinal
Hi guys,
I’m sorry, but I couldn’t get and view the source code of that right click stuff, how can I see that source code?
Tonelli
Hey there,
this is the first time I ever see the damn right click standard menu disabled. Just a pity that they never revealed their secret?!?
Or does anyone know it.. almost a year later :-)?!?
Cheers, Maxon
Maybe,the below URL will be helpful
http://ntt.cc/2008/01/21/replace-flex-default-right-click-menu.html