ACTIONSCRIPT 3 Developer’s Guide en

ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0 DEVELOPER’S GUIDE
Working with menus
Handling menu events
Flash Player 9 and later, Adobe AIR 1.0 and later
A menu dispatches events when the user selects the menu or when the user selects a menu item.
Events summary for menu classes
Flash Player 9 and later, Adobe AIR 1.0 and later
Add event listeners to menus or individual items to handle menu events.
Object Events dispatched
NativeMenu (AIR) Event.PREPARING (Adobe AIR 2.6 and later)
Select menu events
Adobe AIR 1.0 and later
Event.DISPLAYING
Event.SELECT (propagated from child items and submenus)
NativeMenuItem (AIR) Event.PREPARING (Adobe AIR 2.6 and later)
Event.SELECT
Event.DISPLAYING (propagated from parent menu)
ContextMenu ContextMenuEvent.MENU_SELECT
ContextMenuItem ContextMenuEvent.MENU_ITEM_SELECT
Event.SELECT (AIR)
To handle a click on a menu item, add an event listener for the select event to the NativeMenuItem object:
var menuCommandX:NativeMenuItem = new NativeMenuItem("Command X");
menuCommandX.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, doCommandX)
Because select events bubble up to the containing menus, you can also listen for select events on a parent menu.
When listening at the menu level, you can use the event object target property to determine which menu command
was selected. The following example traces the label of the selected command:
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