I was reminded by some comments at Tinic’s blog about the hassles of making custom context menus in Flash. If a parent movie clip and a child movie clip both have context menus set, the parent’s menu is always shown, even when clicking on the child.
At least that’s how it used to be….
Flash Player 8 changed this behavior to something more intuitive. The deepest child with a context menu that satisfies the hitTest gets to provide the menu.
To preserve backwards compatibility, the new behavior only applies to SWF8 content and later. To demonstrate, I whipped up an example. There is no difference between the two movies except the SWF version they are published to.
Right-click all over the movies to see what I’m talking about.
Published to SWF 7:
Published to SWF 8:
If you’re really curious, download both samples here.
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I also blogged about it sometimes back…
http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/flash_and_actionscript/000123.php
Ah, that’s great, that was a huge annoyance previously.
Strangely, the new linux flash player exhibits exactly the same behavior on both movies (gets the correct child context menus)
flash player 9 on mac also produces exactly the same results for both swfs.
I’m using Flash player 9 on XP in Firefox (the 9 debug browser plugin) and I too see exactly the same (intended) result for both swfs – I’m guessing that version 9 of the player has removed the old style way the context menus worked?
Anyway, this is handy I guess.
Anybody now how to pass multiple parameters to the Context Menu?
It seems that some things changed again with Flash 9 (on any platform). anyone know about this?
Here is the same appli, slightly modified for Cairngorm2 final, and FP9.
I included CG2 in the source, you can run it as a project on Eclipse..
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Anybody now how to pass multiple parameters to the Context Menu? whatt ?
result for both swfs – I’m guessing that version 9 of the player has removed the old style way the context menus
thanks for noticing, islami. Yeah, it’s funny that the old functionality got updated…
Flash Player 8 changed this behavior to something more intuitive. The deepest child with a context menu that satisfies the hitTest gets to provide the menu.