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usando botão direito no FLEX » Bruno bg + ADOBE FLEX — Mon, 31 May 2010 21:30:38 +0000

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By: Taren Kaschel

Taren Kaschel — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:29:53 +0000

Very Interesting Read! Looking forward to more on this subject Bookmarked your blog. Was just curious if anybody could point me to some related material. Thanks in advance.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:00:09 +0000

It must be very cool for the images : right-click on an image then “Save as…”, “Send to a friend”, etc… !

By: » Blog Archive » right-click HERE! polyGeek.com

» Blog Archive » right-click HERE! polyGeek.com — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:13:28 +0000

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By: Paulius Uza

Paulius Uza — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:58:49 +0000

David,

Thank you for your answer.

Do you think it is possible that future Flash Player versions will change the current privacy settings model and will allow full usage of right click event? (For ex. Java JRE has little taskbar icon that allows changing settings and accessing console).

By: David

David — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:21:26 +0000

Hello,

Right click support is very important to Adobe and something we have been improving for years now for Flash Player. Here is some context from the reply I left at Ajaxian.

The Flash Player context menu has been customizable for years, and many people use this already (but not enough). You can turn off the “zoom” options and all the other defaults except the “About Flash Player” default. This one is mandatory because it is how the end user can reach their privacy settings. You can also create any new contextual menus that you like. This is well documented here: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/langref/flash/ui/ContextMenu.html

Kevin’s post here can give you a lot more background and an example: http://blog.kevinhoyt.org/2007/01/11/flex-2-context-menus/

HTH,
David
Adobe

By: polyGeek

polyGeek — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:49:59 +0000

Useful scenarios: I think it would open up the entire RIA field to better usability. Currently we don’t think of the context-menu as being useful for any webpage, Flash/Flex or HTML. With this someone could create a color-picker menu or a host of other possibilities.

I do think that the public would have to be educated. It isn’t really discoverable because, as I mentioned, no one expects it to provide anything useful.

Obviously this could be abused because someone could use this to duplicate the default look of the context-menu and make the “About Flash Player…” pop off to some unauthorized site. But off hand I can’t think of any way for someone to make money off that so why bother.

I hope Adobe sees that Flash/Flex developers would seriously like to have access to create custom context-menus and would then give us the control to do so without this workaround.

I’d like to say again that the community owes Uza a huge debt of gratitude for all this effort.

By: Tony Fendall

Tony Fendall — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:14:37 +0000

In answer to the first two points, the first thing that comes to mind for me is that right click would be useful for mind-mapping and drawing applications. Things like scrapblog.com etc

I do think this technology would be exploited by phising scams however. I know that the context menu can be changed through other technologies, but Flash has a great security record, and I think there will be plenty of people keen to benefit from that.