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TextField.menu

Availability

Flash Player 7.

Usage

my_txt.menu = contextMenu

Parameters

contextMenu A ContextMenu object.

Description

Property; associates the ContextMenu object contextMenu with the text field my_txt. The ContextMenu class lets you modify the context menu that appears when the user right-clicks (Windows) or Control-clicks (Macintosh) in Flash Player.

This property works only with selectable (editable) text fields; it has no affect on nonselectable text fields.

Example

The following example assigns the ContextMenu object menu_cm to the text field news_txt. The ContextMenu object contains a custom menu item labeled "Print" with an associated callback handler named doPrint(), which performs printing operations (not shown):

var menu_cm = new ContextMenu();
menu_cm.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem("Print...", doPrint));
function doPrint(menu, obj) {
  // "Print" code here
}
news_txt.menu = menu_cm;

See also

Button.menu, ContextMenu class, ContextMenuItem class, MovieClip.menu

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