Package	flash.ui
Class	public final class ContextMenuItem
Inheritance	ContextMenuItem NativeMenuItem EventDispatcher Object

Language Version:

ActionScript 3.0

Runtime Versions:

Flash Player 9, AIR 1.0

The ContextMenuItem class represents an item in the context menu. Each ContextMenuItem object has a caption (text) that is displayed in the context menu. To add a new item to a context menu, you add it to the customItems array of a ContextMenu object.

With the properties of the ContextMenuItem class you can enable or disable specific menu items, and you can make items visible or invisible.

You write an event handler for the menuItemSelect event to add functionality to the menu item when the user selects it.

Custom menu items appear at the top of the context menu, above any built-in items. A separator bar divides custom menu items from built-in items. In AIR, there are no built-in items and the following restrictions do not apply to content in the AIR application sandbox.

Restrictions:

• You can add no more than 15 custom items to a context menu.
• Each caption must contain at least one visible character.
• Control characters, newlines, and other white space characters are ignored.
• No caption can be more than 100 characters long.
• Captions that are identical to any built-in menu item, or to another custom item, are ignored, whether the matching item is visible or not. Menu captions are compared to built-in captions or existing custom captions without regard to case, punctuation, or white space.
• The following captions are not allowed, but the words may be used in conjunction with other words to form a custom caption (for example, although "Paste" is not allowed, "Paste tastes great" is allowed):

   Save
   Zoom In
   Zoom Out
   100%
   Show All
   Quality
   Play
   Loop
   Rewind
   Forward
   Back
   Movie not loaded
   About
   Print
   Show Redraw Regions
   Debugger
   Undo
   Cut
   Copy
   Paste
   Delete
   Select All
   Open
   Open in new window
   Copy link
   

• None of the following words can appear in a custom caption on their own or in conjunction with other words:

   Adobe
   Macromedia
   Flash Player
   Settings
   

Note: When the player is running on a non-English system, the caption strings are compared to both the English list and the localized equivalents.

View the examples

See also

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package {
    import flash.ui.ContextMenu;
    import flash.ui.ContextMenuItem;
    import flash.ui.ContextMenuBuiltInItems;
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.text.TextField;

    public class ContextMenuItemExample extends Sprite {
        private var myContextMenu:ContextMenu;

        public function ContextMenuItemExample() {
            myContextMenu = new ContextMenu();
            removeDefaultItems();
            addCustomMenuItems();
            this.contextMenu = myContextMenu;
            addChild(createLabel());
        }

        private function removeDefaultItems():void {
            myContextMenu.hideBuiltInItems();

            var defaultItems:ContextMenuBuiltInItems = myContextMenu.builtInItems;
            defaultItems.print = true;
        }

        private function addCustomMenuItems():void {
            var item:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem("Hello World");
            myContextMenu.customItems.push(item);
        }
        
        private function createLabel():TextField {
            var txtField:TextField = new TextField();
            txtField.text = "Right Click Here";
            return txtField;
        }
    }
}