Stanislav Stankov

Multiple ContextMenuItem for different objects

Posted in AS3 optimization, example, projects & snippets on August 11th, 2010 by admin – Be the first to comment

OK here is a simple way to create as many objects as you want context menus:

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import flash.ui.ContextMenu;
import flash.ui.ContextMenuItem;

function addContext(sprite_:Sprite):void {
var menu:ContextMenu = new ContextMenu();
menu.customItems = [new ContextMenuItem("Select only " + sprite_.name)];
menu.hideBuiltInItems();
sprite_.contextMenu = menu;
}

addContext(yellow);
addContext(green);
addContext(red);
addContext(blue);
addContext(this);

note that yellow, green, red, blue are Sprites, but it can be also buttons

Example:

This movie requires Flash Player 10

Nice post about The Right-Click Menu in Flash by Raiyan

Camera.getCamera problem => solution

Posted in actionscript 3, example on January 23rd, 2010 by admin – Comments Off

When you try to add a camera by name like this:

1 2	var cameraName:String = "WebCam"; var cam:Camera = Camera.getCamera(cameraName);

or like this

1	var cam:Camera = Camera.getCamera(cameranames[0]);

both return cam = null

Solution:

You need to add camera index like String in order to work

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var cameraName:String = "WebCam";
var camera:Camera;
const imax:int = Camera.names.length;
var i:int = 0;
while (i < imax) {
if (Camera.names[i] == cameraName) {
camera = Camera.getCamera(String(i));
break;
}
i++;
}

or use this function

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const camera:Camera = getCamera("webCam");

private static function getCamera($cameraName_:String):Camera {
const imax:int = Camera.names.length;
var i:int = 0;
while (i < imax) {
if (Camera.names[i] == $camName_) {
return Camera.getCamera(String(i));
}
i++;
}
return null;
}

so now you will have your camera that you wanted:

thank to:
pooja