Flash :: Annoying Flash Context Menus

Flash Context Menus
There seems to be a problem when you use spesific keywords in the context menu.

When I use :
selected_menu.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem("Cut.", folderItemHandler));
selected_menu.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem("Copy.", folderItemHandler));
selected_menu.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem("Paste.", folderItemHandler));

It works - note the fullstop at the end of each word, when I remove the fullstop it doesn't even display.

Is this some inbuild way of stopping users from using these keywords themselves?

How can I remove it so that it works.

Context Menus Pre-Flash 7
Ok Flash wizards,

I need to try and prevent the context menu from showing up (so users can't right click and select Play to screw up my project :P )

The only problem is, the movie has to be exported for Flash Player 6 and the ContextMenu class is only available for version 7+

Was there a work-around for this back in the day? Or am I just S.O.L?

[Flash 8 | AS] Nexting Context Menus
Hey all, I am adding context menus to tree node items. The menus are being created dynamically in AS and I was just wondering if anyone knew a way to nest them.

For example, right now I am having to add:

Add Node Above
Add Node Below
Add Node Inside

I'd like to do:

Add Node
-> Above
-> Below
-> Beside

Not critical, but I'd prefer to do it that way if I can.

Context Menus
Howdy ActionScript genii:

My situation is this:

I have an application that is currently defined by over one hundred eighty ActionScript classes, a server-side API written in PHP, and additional, mostly invisible, functionality written in JavaScript and HTML4. The whole "viewport" aspect of the app and all client-server communication is written in ActionScript.

I'm at the point where the sheer number of features available lends the app toward the advantages of contextual menus. I'm having trouble integrating them, though, and for no particular reason I can isolate.

This is what I'm experiencing:

I'm just going to say, for example, that I have a MovieClip-based object maybe several layers deep in the global arrangement of things. Say it is located at:

_root.document.layer1.documentItem1.button

This represents the mouse event-enabled "button" for the first item in the first layer of a document created with my application. This is just exemplary, and not exactly the way that these things are really arranged, but you get the drift? So this item, documentItem1, could be modified, moved around, etc. and some of the ways that it can be adjusted, I'd like to be able to put in a ContextMenu for the object. I want to attach the menu to the object's "button."

Now, for some reason, I simply cannot get any kind of context menu to apply itself to this object. As far as I know, there are no instances of the ContextMenu object being attached to any of its containing objects. Is there something I'm missing here? I know that a context menu item can be broken if the callback function is invalid, but this is not the case—I have tested this by simply using the hideBuiltInItems() method with no success. Also, I have declared a dummy callback function right in the constructor for the ContextMenuItem with no success.

If I hook the same menu to the root, it works fine, but obviously fails to provide me with any kind of true contextual menus.

If I start a totally blank fla file and begin working with true context menus, I run into no issues. So what is different about this more complicated organism, compared to a simplistic one, that is breaking the ContextMenus?

Does anyone have enough experience with this to suggest some buggies I should look for?

Thanks,
Christopher

Context Menus
OK, so i thought...i can make a menu when the user right clicks...A Context menu. I created a snazzy orange menu. I made the AS so that when a user right clicks, the movie appears when they click, and when the choose an option, the menu disappears. There are two things on my list:

1) How can you completely disable the context menu. I don't care how, be it software, actionscript, javascript, html or anything.

2) How can i make it so that there is function like "onClickOutside" (i know that isn't a function) where something happens when a user clicks outside the menu (it disappears as well)

Cheers experts,
Flash Cus

Annoying Menus
Grr!

I have a button. When I rollover this button, I've rigged it so a box_mc clip fades in. In this movie clip are two buttons. It's like a drop down menu, only it's really a "fade in" menu below the button. Now, what I'm trying to do, is when the user rolls off the box_mc *containing* those two buttons, the box_mc is played backwards so it appears to fade out.

Ok, now, my problem is, that I can get the box to fade in and play backwards ( and hence fade out ) on rollout, but then the buttons do not work (??) and are not selectable. OR, I can get the box to fade in, and the buttons work, but the rollout code for the box then fails to work.

I think it's something to do with handling the events, but I'm not sure.

How would you approach this problem of the fade in menu ?

Sliding Menus Are So Annoying
http://www.geocities.com/sims_web/test.html

how can i get he menu to move back into teh centre starting position smoothly (like a motion tween) using actionscritp when the mouse goes below the line.

please send me your email address if u want to help so i can send the fla as a attatchment.

thnks

sims

Custom Context Menus In Nested Movieclips
The ability to add custom context menus to nested movieclip has supposedly been fixed in Flash 8, but for some reason it just isn't working for me. Is there something that I am missing here:

Code:
for(var i=0; i<100; i++){

var clip:MovieClip = grid_container_mc.grid_mc.attachMovie("box", "box"+i+"_mc", i);

var seatMenu = new ContextMenu();
seatMenu.hideBuiltInItems();

var note = new ContextMenuItem("View Notepad", editNote);
seatMenu.customItems.push(note);
function editNote() {
// do something
}
clip.menu = seatMenu;

}
Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide!

Buttons Don't Work When I Use Context (right-click) Menus
When I use the right-click menu to call functions, buttons that call the same functions doesn't work. When I don't, the buttons work.

Why is that so?

Annoying Html Text Field Problem.. SO SIMPLE Yet So Annoying
this is annoying..
FYI: all other text loaded into text field is fine except for certain scenarios such as:

#1
I have a multi-line html text field
i load an external text file into the text field for its content
the text in the file is simply

Quote:

<img src='xmasflyer.jpg'>

PROBLEM: NOTHING APEARS

#2
I have a multi-line html text field
i load an external text file into the text field for its content
the text in the file is simply

Quote:

<p><img src='xmasflyer.jpg'>

or

Quote:

.<img src='xmasflyer.jpg'>

>NOTICE the elements before the img tag.. it seems flash needs a character or something before the img tag to show the image

PROBLEM: image finally appears (so does the dot).. but it's totally OUT OF LINE and EVEN OUTSIDE OF THE TEXT FIELD...

ya guys got any clues re the above 2 issues???

please help. or at least point me to the right direction..

tea

additional info:
site is here: http://www.latherrinserepeat.co.uk/main.php (click on PARTIES)
im using flash mx 2004

Flash And Firefox Drop Down Menus - Menus Appear Behind Flash
Hi,

In firefox, if you browse to http://www.unitedpatients.co.uk/index.php and mouse over "What the Doctors Say" you will see that the drop down menu generated by Fireworks appears behind the Flash file on the right side of the page.

This was an issue in IE but was fixed by adding:

Code:
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
Any ideas on doing something similar to make it work in Firefox (this also affects Safari on the mac)

Thanks in advance!

Scott

Flash Context Menu
Hello there,

I've managed to remove most of the objects in the context menu which is revealed when the user rights clicks in the SWF file. The piece of script I've used it: Stage.showMenu = false. However this also disables the "Settings" tab in the context menu when really I want this to be able to work.

Thanks in advance,

Kristopher (UK).

Context Sensative Help/Flash-html
Half the project I'm working is Flash and half HTML. I'm working on a help system similar to Adobe's html help system in their products.
For example if your in Photoshop Elements and you have picture open and you want to enhance the photo. A window appears to control the enhancement and there is a help button. When clicking the help button. It opens to the correct spot in the help system. And It does it thru frames. Can anyone help me out with this? I have a Flash program I made. How do i call out to the html HELP to a certain section in Help thru Frames?

Thanks

Keith

PS: Enclosed is a sample.
Thru my flash file how do I call out for help page 2 in the Body with index.html

Context Menu Of Flash In Director
Hi
Is there any way to show context menu of flash after embedding in director?

What I need to do is:
Copy the text from a dynamic textfield of flash by using its context menu and paste in clipboard.

I somehow tried out doing customising rightclick menu of flash and copy the text but it doesnot work in MAC.
So I'm back to squareone.
I need to allow user to use context menu of flash in director.

Please guide............

No Context Menu In Flash Application
I'm using a Flash application (?) [Flash Companion] and the context menus don't work in the text fields. I can right click forever and nothing happens. The output is in Flash 7. My OS is XP SP2. I've tried Flash Player 7 and 9. Other people using the same software don't have this problem. This means I can't copy and paste between text fields and my frustration level is over the top. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Changing Flash Context MENU
Hi there, is there anyway to change flash MX (right-click) context menu and personalize it ?

Thanks m8s

Hide Context Menu In Flash MX
Hi,
I am developing the web application in Flash Mx. I need hide the context menu in my application.

Note: I have no Flash MX 2004 & my client browser have in flash player 6 only

Please help me
regards,
John W.Berry

Changing Flash Context MENU
Hi there, is there anyway to change flash MX (right-click) context menu and personalize it ?

Thanks m8s

Annoying Flash Ads
i know i shouldn't be asking...

but how do people make those flash ads that pop out of the flash area. i've seen them for movies sometimes. When you go to yahoo.com sometimes they'll have one.

does anybody know what I'm talking about?

Flash Is Annoying Me
Iâ€™ve been having this problem for a while now but it always seemed to fix itself but this time it seems as if it is mad at me or something because it wonâ€™t repair. Flash does not seem to want to load on any site. I go to youtube and it says something about JavaScript I go to anything else that runs on flash and it says I donâ€™t have the updated version when in fact Iâ€™ve download it about 10 times yet it still wonâ€™t work. Iâ€™ve also tried uninstalling it but that just seemed to make it worse because before when I downloaded flash it showed the little movie that it was successfully downloaded but it still didnâ€™t work but now that movie has been replaced with quotations. If there is anyone that has ever had this problem and knows how to fix it please let me know how, I would be so grateful to you. Thanks.

How To Disable Flash Player Context Menu?
does anyone know how to disable the options in the menu. all except "about flash ...."

if anybody knows please tell me at aghas@abv.bg

Thank you

Replacing Context(right Click) Menu In Flash
I'm curoius if anyone knows how to replace, cover up, or disable the right click menu in Flash. To write a true Web App you need to be able to do this. Any ideas? I can't find any docs on Flash knowing which menu button was pressed. Any help or ideas would be greatly appriciated.

Context Sensative Help- From Flash Swf To Html Frames
Half the project I'm working is Flash and half HTML. I'm working on a help system similar to Adobe's html help system in their products.
For example if your in Photoshop Elements and you have picture open and you want to enhance the photo. A window appears to control the enhancement and there is a "Help" button. When clicking the help button. It opens to the correct spot in the help system. And It does it thru frames. Can anyone help me out with this? I have a Flash program I made. How do i call out to the html HELP to a certain section in Help thru Frames? I think it must be a java script forcing frames to view.

Thanks

Keith

PS: Enclosed is a sample.
Thru my flash file how do I call out for help "test2.html" in the Body of index.html

Context Menu Works In Flash But Not In Html
This is my code im using

Code:
var my_cm:ContextMenu = new ContextMenu();
function menuHandler() {
gotoAndPlay("cheat");
level = 1;
}
my_cm.onSelect = menuHandler;
this.menu = my_cm;

so when someone right clicks it goes to the cheat frame. Then i preiview in flash (ctrl-enter) it works. but when i export it to swf and view in html, it doesnt work. im using flash 8. can anyone tell me why

Problem With Custom Context Menu (Flash CS3/AS3)
I am attempting to implement a custom context menu in a Flash CS3 and ActionScript 3 project.

PROBLEM: The context menu displays and functions properly when testing the movie in Flash CS3 but does not display at all when viewing through my website (IE7 or Firefox).

Has anybody seen this before?

Here is a sample of some of the code I'm using. The context menu is created inside of the class where I have a few display objects.

public class MyClass
{
protected var m_ContextMenu:ContextMenu;

function MyClass()
{
//--- Build Context Menu
m_ContextMenu = new ContextMenu();

var item:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem("TestItem");

m_ContextMenu.customItems.push(item);

item.addEventListener(ContextMenuEvent.MENU_ITEM_S ELECT, menuItemSelectHandler);

m_ContextMenu.addEventListener(ContextMenuEvent.ME NU_SELECT, menuSelectHandler);
}

protected function menuSelectHandler(event:ContextMenuEvent):void
{
trace("menuSelectHandler: " + event);
}

protected function menuItemSelectHandler(event:ContextMenuEvent):void
{
trace("menuItemSelectHandler: " + event);
}
}

IE+Vista+Flash Context Menu Lockout
Hi there experts,

I'm tinkering with the mic activity AS3 stuff (although this is a general
flash question). This issue happens whether the .fla is trying reading the
mic or not though. On IE+XP I can right click to get context menu up, then
select allow mic access fine.

On IE+Vista the menu comes up, but all the tabs and buttons are partially or
totally unresponsive! It's like the browser is blocking mouse clicks or
something. I can't set mic to allow access, even though the mic can be seen
to be read on the activity level meter on the context menu.

Has anyone else had this problem? I can't seem to google for the exact issue
so far.

Many thanks

Richard Smith

Limiting Flash Right-click Context Menu
I noticed this on http://www.2wodesigns.biz/ (see attachment)

How do I do this? Is this part of the HTML or do I do this from within Flash?

Simple Flash Context Menu Customisation..?
I've been scouring the web for a simple, designer (read idiot-that's me!) friendly way of customising the context (right-click) menu which appears when viewing flash online or in the standalone player. Could anyone recommend one and where to find one in a flash source file format? I don't want anything fancy, i just want to remove the standard text, add in one or two lines and links, and that's it.

thanks!

Help Me Get Rid Of Annoying Flash Dialog Box
I have created a flash picture and put it up on web site. I use flash to prevent people from stealing pictures. However if you right click on the picture link below. You will see that the "About Macromedia Flash Player 5" dialog box comes up. How do I get rid of this, since it is not in the action script that I created

http://www.hobby.com/dunebuggy.html

This does not do me any good, since the user can go to the macromedia site, download a free version and then save all the pictures he wants!

If I am able to get rid of this box, the user will not know what kind of file this is, and therefore be unlikely to find out its a flash file.

The idea is... I want to prevent people from being able to save, print,cache any of my pictures.

please reply here....help!!
wgannon@ix.netcom.com

Ugh Flash MX Timeline Is Annoying
Im sorry but I just don't like the new timeline controls. I need to get a project out fast and Im having difficulty adjusting to the new timeline. Im used to Flash 5...but when I go to preferences, I don't see an option for using the Flash 5 timeline (like Flash 5 had the option of using the Flash 4 timeline). Can I use this somehow?

One of the things thats really getting on my nerves is that I can't just select keyframes and delete them with the delete key. Whats up with that? I have to right click now. Im having a difficult time selecting keyframes etc...Im just so used to the old way this is messing up my workflow, and until I can learn the new timeline, I need to use the old one.

Thanks!

Flash 5 - Annoying Buttons
I've recently found work arounds for this problem, but it has come
to my attention yet again, and thus I hope to find an answer . . .

How to get an MC element other than a button, to disable a button
that is underneath it?

Scenario:
If I have a screen with 6 buttons, and want a large popup MC vector
shape to appear on top, how can the buttons underneath be disabled
for working?

I'm familiar that many people build their buttons from MCs with
actionScript, but they take alot of time to build properly (even
using existing templates).

Anyone found a workaround for the humble button's flaw?

Flash Problem Thats Annoying Me...
This may sound stupid but flash is getting on my nerves. When i create a new movie and start doing the work for some strange reason the first frame off every movie i make ends up 20 - 40kb's in size and the only thing thats on that frame is my preloader thats just a simple bar. Has anyone come accross this problem before cause i really cant for the life off me work out what the hells causing this. I dont mind file size in my movies but the preloader doesnt show untill about 50kb's into the loading because off this problem and its really bugging me as i said. Anyone got any advice on this at all ?? I dont really want to post any fla files but i can link them on my server and send a pm or email with the address.

All help here is appreciated.

Thanks, Mental

I Found A Very Annoying Flash Bug
onClipEvent (load) {
this._alpha = 0;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
this._alpha += 2;

}

When i use this code to fade in graphics in flash, after a while whatever movieclip or graphic i have fading in on the stage dissapears off the screen,....

yes dissapears!,...it's very frustrating, anybody have any idea what's going on?

@#@$%#$^!!

Disabling Flash Due To Annoying Ads
I have removed Flash player from multiple computers due to annoying advertisements. Although Flash and presentations created using Flash can be very entertaining, I do not feel compelled to support a program I cannot disable when necessary.

Please provide a way to disable this program so that I don't have to uninstall it to avoid very annoying advertisers such as the one who uses dancing shadows...I don't know what they sell, but I do know they keep getting more and more annoying and would never buy products from a company that goes out of its way to be so obnoxious.

Argh Annoying Flash
Hi there, what I am trying to do is have a main page (stage) where there are 3 buttons and once clicked they will display a text box.

now I have created 4 buttons, and I have also created 4 movie clips. The movie clips are on the main timeline as are the 4 buttons, I just used a small white box so I could access the movie clips. now within the movie clips I have the text block and the following action script on a seperate layer

stop();

this._parent.superman.onRelease function = () {
gotoAndStop(20);
}

and I get the following error

**Error** Symbol=text1_mc, layer=text, frame=1:Line 3: Syntax error.
this._root.superman.onRelease function = () {

Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1

Can anyone help me?? I 've been at this **** thing for 5hours now and I am starting to get really frustrated / annoyed with this as I cant figure out what is wrong with it

Annoying Flash Problem
It's not really a problem, but I was just messing around with flash and I turned on something.

It like outlines an the object.

Does anyone know how to turn it off?

Thanks

Annoying Flash 'odd' Behaviour
Evening Guys,
I am having a very fustrating time with doing the simplest of tasks with flash. I am using flash 5 and I am trying to simply fade in an object. simple.

I create a blank key frame on my time line and then paste into place my graphic. (I have tried this everyway almost possible). I then alter the alpha setting to 0%. 15 frames later I insert another blank key frame and paste into place the same graphic. if I then twen this shouldnt flash just fade in the graphic?

When I click on create motion tween, it is replacing my last frame (which is the full and exposed graphic) with the same as in the first key frame. Or if I do it tye other way and create the motion tween before setting the alpha value, flash moves my graphics, without me (knowingly) telling it to.

I have done this numerous times before, a while ago, and am getting really annoyed that I cant get it to work properly again.

Can flash be unpradictable in the way it works? Or is it user error?

Please can someone tell me how they would do it so I can copy it.

Cheers

Wazz

Bringing Up Context Menu Stops Flash Drawing?
I'm sure this is a very good idea, but when building video players it's a pain, about two seconds after bring up the context menu in flash player 9, nothing is drawn onto the stage and videos stop playing.

I was just wondering whether anyone knew if it was possible to get around this, I've added a context menu for playback control but it's ultimately useless because the movie stops playing. I know it keeps on playing once you close the menu, it's just annoying.

I'm writing in AS2 so it's not an AS3 problem but a CS3, more specifically a player 9 issue.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. thanks.

Flash Custom Context Menu Not Displaying In Website
I am attempting to implement a custom context menu in Flash CS3 (ActionScript 3). I am using Bewise's FlashControl to display the swf in my ASP.NET 2.0 website.

The example I provide below works fine for the following:

- Running from within Flash CS3 (Test Movie)
- Publish Preview from Flash CS3 (both using Player 9 and straight HTML... IE7 and Firefox)

It simply will not display the custom context menu item when running in my ASP.NET website (both from within VS2005 debug environment or fully published website).

Has anybody seen this before?

Sample Code
In my .fla file I do do the following:

var cm:ContextMenu = new ContextMenu();
var item:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem('Test Item');
cm.customItems.push(item);
MyMovieClip.contextMenu = cm;

Have To Click On The Flash To Activate... Annoying
this is going to drive me insane... it's probably something stupid and i just dont know.

here is an example - http://www.slopesbbq.com - you have to click in the flash area first before you can use the navigation. is there a way around this to disable this function?

anybody? :-D

thanks!
seth

Annoying Flash Design Tricks
To go in the same catagory as "music that plays automatically on page visits", I want to add this. The newest fad of laying transparent flash ads on top of page content really makes me angry! Especially the ads that are set to "float". So, no matter where you are on the page, there they are blocking your view of the content you came to read! It might not be so bad if they actually disappeared after a few seconds, but to have to close them manually is a joke, not to mention that most of them contain a "tracking cookie", that is basically a spyware device. Even clicking the "X" to close, sets the cookie.
This goes into my book of - Bad Web Design Practices-.

[F8] Flash Won't Wait For PHP To Process.. ITS ANNOYING =[
myData = new LoadVars()
myData.load("weather.php")
myData.onLoad = function(success){
if(success){

trace(this.weather);

} else trace("Error loading data")
}

onMouseDown = function(){
trace(myData.weather);
}

/////// PHP //////////

Php reads Weather.com using file_get_contents, parses it out, then echos

"weather=" whatever here it parsed out and then "&"

So eventually , if PHP ran alone, it'd read

weather=[temp]47[/temp][low]32[/low]&

Thats all well and good, but the damn Actionscript doesn't wait for it to parse it out and stuff, it just comes back with an Undefined unless I remove the actual work the PHP is doing which would make it pointless..

this is driving me mad, can anyone help?

Very Annoying Focus Problem In Flash
I had this problem in Flash MX 2004. Now I am using Flash Pro 8 and the problem is still there.

The problem is that, when you are doing stuff in the actionscript window, and then test the movie, OR switch to another application (like a webbrowser, wich I do constantly for reference and stuff), then when you close the test movie, or come back from the other application, focus is always on the scene, instead of being on actionscript, where it was when you left it.

This is so annoying, and I cannot understand why they would make it like that.

Anyway, does anyone know some kinda fix for this? A setting somewhere that I never came across or something.

Eliminate Annoying Flash Of White?
**SOLUTION FOUND: SEE POST OF JAN. 14, 06**

I thought a preloader would do it, but I think it makes it worse: I am trying to get rid of the annoying flash of white that occurs just before my web page displays the .swf file.

Here is what it looks like now.

By the time you see this, I will probably have removed the preloader.

I tried to search the Forums for this, but "flash of white" was the best search string I could come up with, and of course the word "flash" yields about a kajillion results.

Thanks for any tips...

SL

Annoying Flash Border In Explorer
got a problem with the annoying border thing in expolorer in flash.

i have solved it with use of javascript, which i got off this site somewhere, but cant find the page now.

but that doesn't work in opera. nothing appears, even with <noscript> content, nothing comes up.

is there a way of making it work in opera??

as the normal and object works fine in firefox and opera without that annoying border. but of course explorer has to be different and annoying.

anyone got any ideas?

Help? - Simple But Annoying Flash Problem
Hi, I have a flash file that contains a jpg background with a simple movie clip of a rotating circle. Nothing fancy, no action script or anything, just a background image and a rotating movie clip.

The problem, is that if you play the movie without the rotating circle the jpg background looks fine. However, when I place the rotating circle movie clip on top of the jpg background, the jpg image gets all distorted.

The flash file is attached in a zip file.

Could someone take a peek and give me a suggestion?

Thanks much!