Comments on: Taking control of right-click in Adobe Flex

By: cybersimmas

cybersimmas — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:03:16 +0000

Hi thanks a lot.. This thing worked very well for me. i made little changes in ur sample.. instead of creating new instance of “RightClickPopup” class, i created Menu object which can contain submenus, icons and a seperator..

private function handleRightClick():void
{
// create menu items (using ActionScript shorthand for objects and arrays)
var fruits:Object = { label: “Fruits”, children: [ "Apple", "Orange", "Banana" ], icon: “leaf” };
var colors:Object = { label: “Colors”, children: [ "Red", "Blue", "Green" ], icon: “leaf” };
var separator:Object = { type: “separator” };

// creat the root menu structure
var menuData:Object = { children: [ fruits, separator, colors ] };

// create the menu
var menu:Menu = Menu.createMenu( parent, menuData, false );

// register menu click handler
menu.addEventListener( MenuEvent.ITEM_CLICK, handleMenuClick );

// show the menu
showMenu(menu);
}

protected function showMenu( menu:Menu):void
{
// get the menu parent from the mouse event
var parent:DisplayObjectContainer = this;

// position menu relative to the parent
var point:Point = new Point( parent.mouseX , parent.mouseY );
point = parent.localToGlobal( point );

// show the menu
menu.show( point.x, point.y );
}

By: deyounni

deyounni — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:58:24 +0000

I see, The objects under the mouse are retrieved, and the top most get a double click dispatched from it.

Maybe a new event, (RightClickEvent extends event), would be better. If you didn’t want to have to hook into the MouseEvent.DOUBLE_CLICK.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:18:09 +0000

This code supports handling different actions for different objects as long as they are children of the application class, just like any other click event. Its up to you whether you implement event listeners in each display component or you build a controller to generalize the behavior. If you come up with a good solution be sure to link to it here so I can check it out.

By: deyounni

deyounni — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:23:12 +0000

Missed the download source link the first time.

Got it working on my machine.

Any good ideas on making this modular / generic for multiple libraries? Something like a central dispatcher or registration for the right click? because if every component is using this right click, they are gonna have to be managed somehow.

-Nick

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:58:18 +0000

Click the “Download the Source” link above for the full project. In short, the body tag looks like:

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By: deyounni

deyounni — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:48:16 +0000

little help on the html template –
did you just wrap everything that was in the body into a div?

what does your onload look like? something like Rightclick.init()?

did you simply reace the AF_RUN(…)with SWFObject(…) ?

– nick on my iphone