Question

Is there a way to copy an image into an Air app through the context menu (right-click menu) or at least to detect if there is an image within the clipboard?

Thanks
Uli

Answer 1

One strategy would be to check the clipboard on the ACTIVATE event and do something like enable/disable a context menu item based on the result:

private function checkForImageData(e:Event):void {

  myContextMenu.clipboardItems.paste = Clipboard.generalClipboard.hasFormat(ClipboardFormats.BITMAP_FORMAT);

}

addEventListener(Event.ACTIVATE, checkForImageData);