[FLEX-16208] AIR 1.5: contextMenu no longer shows custom items.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Later
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK 3.2 (Release)
• Component/s: mx: FlexNativeMenu
• Environment: Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Language Found: English
• Assignee: Adobe JIRA
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 20/Oct/08 17:59
• Updated: 05/Mar/10 18:06
• Resolved: 04/Feb/09 13:59

Description

[This bug is AIR 1.5 only]

With the new contextMenu clipboard items, all rich text editors create a default context menu. This can be overridden by assigning a new menu to the contextMenu property of an InteractiveObject.

Many Flex widgets, including TextArea, use a UITextField to handle text editing. This means that assigning a custom contextMenu to a TextArea will do nothing, since the underlying UITextField will continue to intercept the right-click and display the default contextMenu.

One possible fix would be for TextAreas (and other text widgets) to propagate their contextMenu to their components.

Workaround: Grab the underlying textField object and set the contextMenu on that object as well.