Detect right clicks on a RichEditableText

Question

I am currently implementing squiggly in a flex application to enable spell checking. Due to certain requirements, I can not use SquigglyUI to hook onto my spark RichEditableText. I have successfully used com.adobe.linguistics.utils.TextTokenizer to tokenize and highlight mispelt words.

I would like to be able to let the user rightclick on a mispelled word and show a list of suggestions in the context menu using getSuggestions.

I have tried to attach a listener to my RichEditableText:

richtexteditor.addEventListener("rightClick", showSuggestions);

And this is my event handler:

private function showSuggestions(event:MouseEvent):void{
    trace('hi there');
}

The problem is when debugging the application, I never get the trace in my console as the rightclick event is never dispatched. In addition, I need to detect the word the user has right clicked on. How can I go about doing this and how can I detect right clicks?

Cheers

Answer 1

All I had to do was add an event handler to the contextmenu property of the richeditable text:

richtexteditor.contextMenu.addEventListener(ContextMenuEvent.MENU_SELECT, doSomething);

Answer 2

r.addEventListener(MouseEvent.RIGHT_CLICK, listener)

This will listen for the right-click of the mouse (Flex4.5)