MovieClip.menu

Availability

Flash Player 7.

Usage

my_mc.menu:ContextMenu = contextMenu

Parameters

contextMenu A ContextMenu object.

Description

Property; associates the specified ContextMenu object with the movie clip my_mc. The ContextMenu class lets you modify the context menu that appears when the user right-clicks (Windows) or Control-clicks (Macintosh) in Flash Player.

Example

The following example assigns the ContextMenu object menu_cm to the movie clip image_mc. The ContextMenu object contains a custom menu item labeled "View Image in Browser..." that has an associated function named viewImage().

var menu_cm:ContextMenu = new ContextMenu();
menu_cm.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem("View Image in Browser...", viewImage));
this.createEmptyMovieClip("image_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth());
var mclListener:Object = new Object();
mclListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
   target_mc.menu = menu_cm;
};
var image_mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
image_mcl.addListener(mclListener);
image_mcl.loadClip("photo1.jpg", image_mc);

function viewImage(target_mc:MovieClip, obj:Object) {
   getURL(target_mc._url, "_blank");
}