Flash Context Menu's

[ComputerNut]

Ive been fiddling with flash mx, and a thought has been bugging me for when creating flash based sites. I notice that some flash sites have those limited context menu's which only have 2 items, compared to the regular context menu with has all those control items. any idea how to set those on a flash file? Ive attempted to google it, but I havent had much luck. BTW, not sure if this was the best forum to put it in. Mods, feel free to move it if needed.

TIA

[Statica]

It's not set in the flash itself but in your HTML code. for example:

PHP Code:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" width="300" height="300" id="flashmovie" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="flashmovie.swf" />
<param name="menu" value="false" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<embed src="flashmovie.swf" menu="false" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="300" height="300" name="flashmovie" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object> 


As you can see .. the param name="menu" value="false" and corresponding menu=false in the embed tag will remove the menus.
true will bring it back.

When publishing with Flash, if you toggle the Display Menu checkbox you can get Flash supply the necessary changes to your HTML file directly

HTH

[ComputerNut]

Well I didnt find a check box for the menu in the publish section in Flash, so I expect I will have to do the code, thanx though. at least theres a way I can make it work.

TIA

[Statica]

You can set it globally from Publish Settings .. there should be a tab for HTML publish settings.

[ComputerNut]

Yeah, thats where I looked, didnt find it. Probably cause im using flash mx 2002

[ComputerNut]

Well i got it to work via the html tags so I reckon im in the clear. Thanx statica!

TIA