By default, the SWFs you publish will show a native menu bar (the pull down menu showing the items File – View – Control – Help) when run locally. The same case applies to Projector (.exe) files published either from the Adobe Flash IDE, or created from local SWFs using the File – Create Projector… menu item from the native pull down menu.

In my opinion, this menu does not add any functionality to any Flash application, is as useless as the built-in contextMenu items, and should always be hidden. Luckily, it takes only one line of code to hide the menu.

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UPDATE: You may also refer to Hiding the Built-In Native MenuBar (And ContextMenu Items).

In my opinion, the native right-click context menu is an odd legacy from the Flash Movies days. It may be useful when Flash is used as a video player, for animations and cartoons, in the absence of any proper custom UI.

If you are developing Flash applications, you should consider always hiding the native right-click Flash Player context menu’s built-in items. Sure, you cannot get rid of the context menu completely, but you should at least hide the built-in items. It makes the application look a lot more professional because the long list of built-in items are mostly irrelevant.

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The “long press” context menu is an alternative to the typical right-click context menu. In this example, we will allow end-users to bring up a contextual menu by “long pressing” (pressing the left-mouse button down on a spot and holding it down for a predefined time).

This example was implemented using uiMenu from the ActionScript 3.0 Aspire UI library.

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