About The Links Menu In Flash Player - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-USING FLASH Use Manual

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The editing context menu appears when a user right-clicks (Windows) or Control-clicks
(Macintosh) in an editable text field in a document in Flash Player. You can add custom
items to this menu. You cannot hide any built-in items.
Flash Player also displays an error context menu when a user right-clicks (Windows)
or Control-clicks (Macintosh) in Flash Player and no document is loaded. You cannot
customize this menu.
You customize context menus in Flash Player 7 using the
objects in ActionScript. For more information on using these objects, see
contextMenuItem
ContextMenu in the ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference.
Remember the following criteria when creating custom context menu items for Flash Player:
Custom items are added to a context menu in the order in which they are created. You
cannot modify this order after the items are created.
You can specify the visibility and enabling of custom items.
Custom context menu items are automatically encoded using Unicode UTF-8 text
encoding.

About the links menu in Flash Player

If a user is using a Netscape browser or an Active X application to display Flash Player, the
player displays a links menu for all Flash documents. If the user right-clicks (Windows) or
Control-clicks (Macintosh) on a text link in the Flash document, the links menu appears with
the following menu items:
Open
opens the link.
Open in New Window
Copy Link
copies the link to the Clipboard.
In addition, the user can open a link in a new window by doing the following:
In a Windows Netscape browser: Control-click the link.
In a Macintosh Netscape browser: Command-click the link.
In an Active X application: Shift-click the link.
opens the link in a new window.
and
contextMenu
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