July 2003
Intermediate to advanced
896 pages
45h 43m
English
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2.9. Hiding the Flash Player’s Menu Items
Problem
You want to hide the right-click menu under Windows (Ctrl-click on the Macintosh).
Solution
You can’t disable the Flash
Player’s pop-up menu entirely, but you can minimize
the options shown in the menu by
setting
the Stage.showMenu property to
false.
Discussion
By default, the following options appear in the Flash Player’s pop-up menu when the user right-clicks in Windows (or Ctrl-clicks on the Macintosh):
| Zoom In |
| Zoom Out |
| 100% |
| Show All |
| Quality (Low, Medium, or High) |
| Settings |
| About Flash Player 6 |
You can remove most of the menu options with the following line of ActionScript code, although the Settings and About options remain in place:
Stage.showMenu = false;
Unfortunately, Flash does not provide a way to disable the menu entirely. Furthermore, Windows users are accustomed to using right-click to display a pop-up browser menu that allows them to open a link in a new window, for example. Such options are not available due to the Flash pop-up menu’s presence. It is possible to use a third-party utility such as SWFKit or SWF Studio to completely disable the menu for enhanced Standalone Projectors (Windows versions only), as shown in Recipe 2.10.
See Also
See Recipe 2.8 for a way to display Flash’s Settings dialog box without requiring the user to right-click (in Windows) or Ctrl-click (on Macintosh).
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