21 October 2005

Flash ContextMenu Gotcha

Written by Richard Leggett ( )
Published on October 21st, 2005 @ 03:06:50 pm, using 95 words, 232 views

Categories: Flash

No doubt some of you have come across this. Just one for the record. It seems Flash doesn't allow certain words for labels to ContextMenuItems. "Delete", "Open" and "Save" for example.

I haven't had time to investigate fully, but the following two snippets of code on a frame will show the problem.

// Doesn't work
var cm:ContextMenu = new ContextMenu();
var cmi:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem("Delete", handler);

cm.customItems.push(cmi);
menu = cm;

function handler() {}

// Works
var cm:ContextMenu = new ContextMenu();
var cmi:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem("Delete2", handler);

cm.customItems.push(cmi);
menu = cm;

function handler() {}

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Comment from: Brajeshwar

It do no even allow words like Macromedia,
http://www.brajeshwar.com/archives/2003/08/context-menu-and-the-forbidden-word/
An example
http://www.brajeshwar.com/archives/2003/08/contextmenu-selective-menu-items/
But then, wish there were more application specific context menu implementation
http://www.brajeshwar.com/archives/2004/09/contextmenu-is-that-for-8ball/

Permalink 21/10/05 @ 16:14

Comment from: Richard Leggett [Member]

Ah thankyou Brajeshwar, I had a quick Google but didn't find your post. Cheers :)

Permalink 21/10/05 @ 16:16

Comment from: Carlos Rovira

For me the most important problem is that you can't use it in nested MovieClips.

If you have a ScrollPane and inside you have MovieClips in the container MC, you can use it.

I hope this was fixed in new players (8, 8.5,...)

Permalink 21/10/05 @ 23:23

Comment from: Richard Leggett [Member]

Hey Carlos,

Actually I'm doing this at the moment :) It is fixed in 8.

Permalink 22/10/05 @ 12:05

Comment from: Luis

I came across this problem a few weeks ago too, and apparently some of the words that work in MX2004 do not work in 8 and viceversa:

http://www.blog.lessrain.com/?p=223

Permalink 31/10/05 @ 08:47

Comment from: Richard Leggett [Member]

Ah thanks Luis, I'm also going to put a link to another CM gotcha for completeness:

http://www.bitchwhocodes.com/archives/2005/10/context_menu_go.html

Permalink 31/10/05 @ 15:25

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