Custom Right Click Menu

Description: Change flash's default right-click menu using actionscript.
Author: John Bezanis
Added: January 21st 2007
Version: Flash 8

Changing the right click menu is simple and takes only a few lines of code.
actionsframe

Place the following code in the Actions tab on the main stage:

var linkURL="http://www.bezzmedia.com"; 
var linkText="Link Text";
//Defines a new right-click menu
var myMenu = new ContextMenu(); 
//goToThisURL is a function that gets run whenever the link is clicked
function goToThisURL(){
  //_blank opens the link in a new window
  getURL(linkURL, "_blank");
}
//Create a new item for the new menu.
var copyright = new ContextMenuItem(linkText, goToThisURL);
//Add the item to the new menu
myMenu.customItems.push(copyright);
//Hide flash's built in items (zoom in, zoom out, etc) 
myMenu.hideBuiltInItems();
//Apply the new menu
_root.menu = myMenu;

Additional items can be added to menu by adding in a few lines just before the last line.

function someFunctionName(){
  //_self opens the link in the same window
  getURL(linkURL, "_self");
}
var menuItem = new ContextMenuItem("Some More Link Text", someFunctionName);
//Add the item to the menu
myMenu.customItems.push(menuItem);

Menu items can perform tasks other than redirecting the browser. Simply place the actionscript you'd like to run inside of the function and the code will execute when the menu item is clicked. The provided example has a function which draws a line at a random location.

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