right clicking in flash movie

[dcassidy]

This one has puzzled me for a while...

Normally, when you right click inside a flash movie in IE a menu appears displaying the options Zoom In, Zoom Out, Show All etc., allowing the user to manually control the movie.

In some movies however these menu items have been disabled and the only thing that appears is the words Macromedia Flash 5 Player. Anyone know how this is done?

[quickasa]

yeah, that's straightforward. Flash 5 doesn't offer this feature as standard so you need to add some simple code to the HTML Flash does generate, as follows:

In the <embed> tag place this: menu="false", i.e...

<EMBED src="newmovie.swf" menu="false"></EMBED>

...and in the <object> tag enter this:

<PARAM NAME="Menu" VALUE="0">

that'll do it for ya pal. A glorious example of this is here:

http://www.geraldedelman.com

You could also mess around with the FS Command options within Flash if you're exporting a standalone.

later

[czoka]

actually this feature is offered by flash


click

File --> publish settings

select the
HTML tab

and click off "Display Menu"

when you export the movie the menu is gone(except the about flash 5)

[quickasa]

bloody hell. i'll keep my mouth shut in future!

[quickasa]

bloody hell. i'll keep my mouth shut in future!

[czoka]

hehehe your methoid works too though...

[quickasa]

admittedly i am a mild user - simply dont have as much time to use flash as i would love to... but i should know better after 12 months. i only found out how to export a bloody swf as transparent the other day!!!

talk to me about cold fusion. then we'll see who the daddy is! ;-)