Recipe 3.8. Hiding the Flash Player s Menu Items

Recipe 3.8. Hiding the Flash Player's Menu Items

Problem

You want to hide the right-click menu under Windows (Control-click on the Mac).

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.showDefaultContextMenu 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 Control-clicks on the Mac):

Zoom In
Zoom Out
Show All
Quality (Low, Medium, or High)
Settings
Print
Show Redraw Regions (if using a debug player)
Debugger (if using a debug player)
About Adobe Flash Player 9

You can remove many of the options with the following line of ActionScript code, although the Settings and About and debug player options remain in place:

stage.showDefaultContextMenu = false;

Unfortunately, Flash does not provide any 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.