Flash :: Custom Context Menus In Nested Movieclips

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

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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

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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.

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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?

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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.

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I've been developing an application that uses context menus to give users most of the control over the interface. I've been creating these context menus using the Flash 2004 Context Menu class, which is great, and makes things really easy.

One niggle, though: the application uses <a href="asfunction: etc."> within textfields to launch pretty much every command that isn't in the context menus, and every time a user attempts to access a context menu near one of these, a Macromedia-generated context menu appears instead with the options 'Copy Link' and 'Show Link'. This is a bit stupid because;

a) the <a hrefs> aren't really links as such, so these options don't do anything anyway
b) They block access to the context menus I've created.

Does anyone know how to suppress these automatic context menus? It's really irritating...

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Is there a workaround for changing nested movieclip's context menus?

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hi all,
i hv a problem in custom context menu. there is a mc on root named "lbl1". action script on the first frame of scene is:

var lblMenu:ContextMenu = new ContextMenu();
lblMenu.hideBuiltInItems();
var lblCopy = new ContextMenuItem("Copy", copyLbl);
lblMenu.customItems.push(lblCopy);
function copyLbl() {
trace("copy");
}
lbl1.menu = lblMenu;

but this is not showing the "copy" context menu item there. where is the problem? plz help.

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Hi
I just wanna check if there is a way of detecting right click in a particular area(suppose an mc) & display a custom context menu while supressing the flash player menu? I know that it can be done in FlashMX 2004 but that only adds menu items to the flash player menu.
While what I want is to supress the flash player menu so that it is not displayed & a custom menu of mine(an mc) is displayed.

Any one??

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When creating a custom context menu, can you have an item that contains a submenu?

For example, could I have an item labelled "Detail" that when you rolled over it, revealed a submenu with "High", "Medium" and "Low" as items.

If you still don't know what I mean, go on File > Open Recent...
It has that arrow next to the words "Open Recent" and reveals a submenu when you rollover it.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

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Hi,

I have set a custom context menu in a .swf, and I can see it normally when previewing it on flash (Test Movie).

However, when I see it on my browser, I can't see the custom options (only the reduced context menu with settings and about macromedia...)

On my first frame I have an actions layer with this (context + loader):

ActionScript Code:
root_cm = new ContextMenu();root_cm.hideBuiltInItems();root_cm.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem("Add to Favourites", itemHandler1))root_cm.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem("send e-mail", itemHandler2));;function itemHandler1(obj:Object, item:ContextMenuItem) {getURL("javascript:window.external.AddFavorite(location.href, document.title);");}function itemHandler2(obj:Object, item:ContextMenuItem) {getUrl("<a href="mailto:emailIwant@domain.com">mailto:emailIwant@domain.com</a>", "_parent");}_root.menu = root_cm; bytes_loaded = Math.round(this.getBytesLoaded());bytes_total = Math.round(this.getBytesTotal());getPercent = bytes_loaded/bytes_total;this.loadBar._width = getPercent*307;this.loadText = Math.round(getPercent*100)+"%";if (bytes_loaded == bytes_total) {this.gotoAndPlay(3);}

(corrected the mailto command)

which setting may be wrong so that it won't work ?

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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);
}
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Just playing around with some of the new FMX2k4 features, specifically the ContextMenu() and ContextMenuItem() stuff.

Perhaps unsurprisingly you cannot have custom elements with the same labels as any of the built-in items ("Show All", "Zoom 100%", etc). These are case-insensitive too.

That's fair enough, but it seems that you cannot have custom menu items with the labels "cut", "copy" or "paste" (add any other characters besides a space and they work fine, eg: "cut_", "copy_").

Here's my code:

ActionScript Code:
/* DOESN'T WORK */
var my_cm = new ContextMenu();
my_cm.hideBuiltInItems();
my_cm.customItems.push( new ContextMenuItem("copy",f_one) );
my_cm.customItems.push( new ContextMenuItem("paste",f_two) );
function f_one() { trace(" f one ") }
function f_two() { trace(" f 222 ") }

this.menu = my_cm;

/* WORKS GREAT */
var my_cm = new ContextMenu();
my_cm.hideBuiltInItems();
my_cm.customItems.push( new ContextMenuItem("copy_",f_one) );
my_cm.customItems.push( new ContextMenuItem("paste_",f_two) );
function f_one() { trace(" f one ") }
function f_two() { trace(" f 222 ") }

this.menu = my_cm;

Anyone know why this might be? There are no current cut/copy/paste items but might they be getting added in at some point? Can anyone find any other disallowed menu labels?

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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;

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In my video player application I have added a custom context menu. When in normal display state the custom context menu appears when you right click anywhere in the player as it should. When in fullscreen state the custom context menu only shows up if you right click inside the fullscreen text and if you allow the fullscreen text to fade out by mouse out the only menu you can get is the default. I have tried to assign the custom context menu to every possible display object, inside the fullscreen text is the only area it shows up while in fullscreen mode.
I have also tried the more common format for adding context menu items however this one is less code.
public function addContextMenu():void
{
myContextMenu = new ContextMenu();
myContextMenu.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem("Go Full Screen"));
myContextMenu.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem("Exit Full Screen"));
myContextMenu.hideBuiltInItems();
myContextMenu.customItems[0].addEventListener(ContextMenuEvent.MENU_ITEM_SELECT,onShowFullScreen);
myContextMenu.customItems[1].addEventListener(ContextMenuEvent.MENU_ITEM_SELECT,onShowNormalScreen);
application.contextMenu = myContextMenu;
}
Any incite would be welcome.
Thank you
Greg

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All,

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I would like for the button, when clicked, to load an external .swf file into the container movieclip which is nested inside a _root movieclip. See diagram...

I have used the following code on my button to no avail:

Code:
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AND

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I have also got a menu with a series of buttons on the right and used movie clips there as well for the different sets of buttons.

The problem i am having is nothing i do to code it works, please help.

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and when i change the size of the clips, i want the size of the child to change with the parent? can anyone gimme a hint!
Thanx for ur help.
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Code:

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In some ways, I hope the answer to this problem is trivial, but on the other hand I don't want to annoy the moderators.

Our study group is creating a virtual photo album that can have photos dragged into it. This is a non-web Flash app.

The idea is to have a Page object that has Photo objects dragged into it. Everything has to be a MovieClip becuase they all need to be draggable.

I figured we could have a Page object that extended MovieClip and that it would contain nested MovieClips (which are the photos). However I'm finding it a mission to dynamically create the Photo objects.

In the library I have a Page mc and a Photo mc where the Page mc is linked to Page .as. The Photo mc is just a box for now.

This is a simplified version of it.

Code:

class Page extends MovieClip {

private var _photo1:MovieClip;

function Page(){}

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}
}

So I'm trying to create/instantiate the Photo mc with _photo1.attachMovie("Photo", "photoInstance", 2); and I've tried numerous variations of it. All the tuts I've stumbled across get close, but not quite close enough. The closest I've gotten is here

I instantiated the initial page object on the main timeline with

Code:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TrIQ...eature=channel

I have completely converted it over to AS 3.0 in the most logical way I can think to do it. Here is the script I am using to make this thing work.

Code______________________________________________ ___________
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, thumbClicked);//This is a tester modification
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var selfRun:Timer = new Timer (5000);

selfRun.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, selfRunHandler);
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frameNum = frameNum + 1;
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}
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}
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sketchChange();
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}
}

End Code______________________________________________ _

On another mc I have the pictures organized with frame labels. I know that they all work correctly because the selfRun function that I created to make the images progress every 5 seconds works perfectly. Also when I add an even listener for the stage and set it to work as the 2nd button should, the functions work fine - image movie clip goes to the frame label for the 2nd image. Additionally when I change the event listener for the 2nd button from a MouseEvent.CLICK to a MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER - IT WORKS COMPLETELY FINE!? But these darned things just dont seem to want to work as plain buttons. I thought it was an issue of being nested inside over 3 other movie clips, but like I said the roll over tests have proven other wise. And its not a function error because then I make the listener for the stage it works. Also when I add a new instance of just the movie clip custom thumbnail button onto the main stage directly and set up the listeners correctly, it STILL will not be recognized by a CLICK listener, YET still works as a ROLL_OVER listener. Although the movie has 55 thumbnails total and coping the bar that has them exceeds Flashes workspace limitation - this thing goes for miles off of the stage to a point where it wont allow me to set an x position of 0.0 LOL! - I don't think this is preventing the button from being recognized considering all of my tests have worked. What Am I doing wrong?

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http://www.7inone.info/sid/

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past_B_01.bmp, past_B_02.bmp, past_B_03.bmp etc.
etc.
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etc.
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http://www.glowdesignhouse.com/glowweb8.31.html
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On de _main timeline, first frame:

Code:
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I create 2 movieclips (First and Second) and set the linkage as 'export for actionscript', and 'export in first frame'.
code in First:

Code:
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code in Second:

Code:
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Code:
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This is on the MC

Code:
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days = new Array ("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday", "Sunday");
months = new Array ("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December");
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bookmonth = monthname; //similar to line above
bookweek = dayname; //similar to line above
delete timedate;
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Code:
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When I press space the hero's attack animation plays non-stop. I checked hero_mc.attack and it is set to false after the last frame of the attack animation is played. This makes no sense to me in terms of logic. Perhaps there's something to AS3 that I don't quite understand?

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Code:
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1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant:mPortfolioThumb0

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I have created in flash two types of MovieClips (lets call them "McA" and "McB", standing for apples and bananas I then placed instances (about 20 or so) of these movieClips on the stage (in my .fla file) to check the exact coordinates. And finally I selected all of them and created a new symbol (lets call him McF, as in for Fruit).

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