Textfield () - how to prevent mouse right click menu

Textfield () - how to prevent mouse right click menu from appearing (a menu having COPY, PASTE, SELECT ALL etc options).

From stackoverflow

• have you tried with a custom InteractiveObject.contextMenu?

  Tom : Can I just set it to NULL or something? I want menu to disappear..

• Set the fields selectable property to false.

  Tom : I want to keep it selectable to make CURSOR VISIBLE.

• FlashPlayers default menu items.

  As far as I know you cannot remove the basic FlashPlayer items (Settings and About) which make sense.

  FlashPlayers inbuilt items

  You can remove the top ones (Play, Pause, etc.) by either specifying it while compiling or from within the code:

  contextMenu.hideBuiltInItems();
  

  or within the global context :

  stage.showDefaultContextMenu = false;
  

  TextField related menu items

  The copy/paste/select being inbuilt as well for TextFields it doesn't seem you can hide them. However as it seems like you really want to get rid of them here's a workaround. The example below illustrates how you can add a transparent button over the textField to sidetrack the mouse behavior:

  package  
  {
      import flash.display.Sprite;
      import flash.display.Stage;
      import flash.events.MouseEvent;
      import flash.text.TextField;
      import flash.text.TextFieldType;
      import flash.ui.ContextMenu;  
  
  
      public class TestText extends Sprite 
      {
  
       private var textField:TextField;
  
       public function TestText()
       {
        // Removes the inbuit items from the contextMenu
  
        var contextMenu:ContextMenu = new ContextMenu();
        contextMenu.hideBuiltInItems();
        this.contextMenu = contextMenu;
  
        // Adds a simple input TextField
  
        textField = addChild(new TextField()) as TextField;
        textField.type = TextFieldType.INPUT;
        textField.text = "Test Text";
  
        // Covers the TextField with a transparent shape
  
        var shape:Sprite = addChild(new Sprite()) as Sprite;
        shape.graphics.beginFill(0, 0);
        shape.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, textField.width, textField.height);
        shape.mouseChildren = false;
  
        // Listens to a click on the mask to activate typing
  
        shape.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, eventClickHandler);
       }
  
       private function eventClickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
       {
        // Sets the focus to the underlaying TextField and makes 
        // a full selection of the existing text.
  
        stage.focus = textField;
        textField.setSelection(0, textField.text.length);
       }
      }
  }