Re: FLASH: Right Click on a Mac = Ctrl Click!!! for Flash that's WRONG!

[Frederico]

On 9/14/1999 6:43 PM, Chris via

mediamonkeygotchagraphics [dot] com

, said:


>I'm sorry, I totally disagree .... I'm  at a (Flash) site this very moment.

>

>Ctrl-click is your contextual menus ... it's a default for OS8 .... Look at

>any program, ctrl-click is contextual menus

>If I "ctrl-click" on a regular part of the html page:

>I get Back, Forward , save source ... all that stuff .... the same as

>holding down the mouse button


Exactly!!  


*If* you are within a Flash movie, you get the default behavior of the 

Flash controller with either combo. Bad, bad idea. 


*If* your page has both Flash and HTML components, you can access either 

the Flash controller or the HTML contextual menus. 


Sure, if all you have is Flash on the page, as noted above, either will 

work, but, please, do the user a favor, and help reinforce uniform 

behavior.


Command-Click for the Flash Controller, and Control-Click for the HTML 

contextual menus. If no HTML (visibly) exists on the page, the user will 

discover that, and not be confused as to why he can't access the normal 

HTML functions.


And then blame MM for making both combos work as Flash controller within 

a Flash field to begin with (doh!).


HTH



Frederico


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