How to disable the right click menu in flash movies

There are various ways in which you can disable the right click menu in Flash movies. The simplest one, is via a simple piece of html code. You just have to add the parameter menu=false:

<object classid=”clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000″ width=”400″ height=”400″ codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0″>
<param name=”quality” value=”high” />
<param name=”menu” value=”false” />
<param name=”src” value=”movie.swf” />
<embed type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”400″ height=”400″ src=”movie.swf” menu=”false” quality=”high”></embed>
</object>

Keep in mind, that there is no way to totally disable the right click menu. Adobe gives us some flexibility on removing the unnecessary items, but forces us to keep the ‘Settings’ and ‘About Adobe Flash player’ links in all .swf files.

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