I am trying to find the best way to improve the user experience when interacting with a context menu in a Flex application. I already know that the context menu in Flex is quite limited in terms of how it is constructed and what it can show.
What I was hoping to do was to implement something similar to what Microsoft Word does in 2010 or later, where when right clicking a little floating palette is displayed above the common popup menu. I was hoping that there was a way to 1) listen for an event that is triggered when a context menu is displayed, and 2) determine the location of the context menu so that I could display a floating palette above the context menu as in Word. So far, I have not found out how to accomplish either of these things.
I suspect that there might be some focus and stage management issues with this approach generally, but I was hoping to at least get to the point where those issues were discovered. Any ideas?
And for the record, I am familiar with the JavaScript hack to override the default context menu in a Flex app. May have to go there eventually, but hoping for a more elegant solution.
Currently, native context menu in Flash doesn’t allow to place any custom graphics above it. And the second problem is it blocks user interaction with Flash movie during appearance. So I think you haven’t any chances to deal with it.