adobe AIR native application menu question - actionscript-3

HI, I', trying to add some menuItems to an AIR app application menu in the mac, I know that is possible to add to the standard one the application have instead of replace the whole menu, but I can't found any example on adding not replacing the whole the menu, can someone be kind on point me to an example of how to do that, thanks!!

Here's a post I found just doing a quick google search:
http://www.thanksmister.com/index.php/archive/air-adding-application-menu-bar-items/
I've created application menus for many applications, and it works just as described in this post (not written by me).

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I am starting to build my own website using the Django framework. It has become apparent that in order to make quick progress I will have to use some form of external library to handle most of my HTML/CSS/Javascript, for example, https://materializecss.com
I have begun investigating different websites to see what works and what doesn't and I was wondering if there is a quick way to identify what UI library a particular website is using.
Chrome's 'inspect' tool doesn't really help me because I get lost with so much HTML.
For example, this website https://www.moneyunder30.com/category/banking apparently uses https://materializecss.com, is there a general place hidden deep in the HTML where I could look to find this information?
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There's a pretty cool Chrome extension called Wappalyzer

Slidable panel Control for Windows Phone

I need to create 'slidable panel' control for WP8. Very similar to the one that was used by the old twitter application on ipad (landscape UI).
It's pretty hard to describe in words, here is a link to an article describing how to implement it on ios:
https://www.cocoacontrols.com/posts/how-to-build-the-twitter-ipad-user-experience
Sorry, i can't post image to give you a quick overview (stackoverflow reputation...) you will find some in the article above.
As you can see it's basically a stack of 'views' that can overlaps, and you can slide them around.
Is there any third party control similar to this for Windows Phone
8.x?
If not could you provide some guidance on how you would implement it?
Maybe it's not the good way to do it on WP, in this case what's the WP way to do this?
PS: i am new to WP development, ios/android background.
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I know that it is not exactly what you are looking for but this widget can be a pretty good base for your control.

Development of browser extension questions

I am looking to develop a cross browser extension (plugin) and am having troubles getting answers to a few questions. So just looking for some simple answers if what I would like to do is possible. Thanks. I am currently looking at using Crossrider but would use whatever.
How do some extensions add a menu to the right click button. For example, when I right click in Chrome I see Evernote Web Clipper and Adblock options in the dropdown). How do they do that?
Could I embed a youtube player, for example. So when it's closed the audio still plays but when clicked you can see the video and what not?
For sites like Grooveshark. Could they have a plugin that when clicked you could change the song or stop the music, etc. So basically communicate with a website in your tab from the plugin?
Thanks. I just found Crossrider and it looks like some may be possible but havn't explored it too in depth yet. Kind of wondering if anyone has tried doing these things and if possible.
Google has a specific API for adding context menus. You can read about it here. Just be sure to request permissions for context menus in the manifest.json file and then you can add everything else to your background JavaScript file.
I don't think it's exactly possible to embed a YouTube player into the extension directly. Google Chrome will not allow for running inline scripts, which are clearly required to run YouTube within a popup page (or anything else, for that matter).
As for your third question, you would have to check into the individual APIs for any sites that you want to run the extension with. Every site is going to be a little bit different and my first instinct is that most sites are not going to allow for directly adding their player to the extension.
I would strongly suggest checking out the information about developing Google Chrome extensions available on Google Code. They provide a great tutorial and reference for the basics of developing extensions.

Context menu in web applications, yay or nay?

There have been a few things in web app's that I don't like. First and foremost is not having a right click context menu. I'm so used to right clicking on an item in a list and doing an action. So I've had a browse around, and it's certainly doable here's an example.
My question is, are there reasons not to do this? I can't think of a single web site I've been to that uses a context menu like this. Is that just an historical convention, or is there something else?
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I don't think its so much as historical convention, more than in order to catch the right-click event you basically have to override/ignore the web browser's default functionality for right-clicking.
That being said it absolutely can be done via Javascript - here is one example ( i haven't used this, but just did a quick Google search ):
http://luke.breuer.com/tutorial/javascript-context-menu-tutorial.htm
Context menus are an excellent tool for web applications. The issue is many Mac users are not used to right-clicking.

guide on how to kick start template based flash website?

I'm very new to flash and as3 design patterns. But I can read and write as3 quite ok, i've created small widgets with that. I've developed several web sites using php and also python.
Now for a educational cd-rom project i'm working on, i've basically designed all templates (A home page, a generic page with navigation and a sidebar - kind of like a wordpress blog). I have all the data for the cdrom on word files, which i intend to place on xml files.
My question is what is the best way to start a project like this? Can anyone guide me to a template or something that can be used for kickstarting this? kind of like a wordpress (without the admin)? Or am i on this all wrong? Can someone please help
The Gaia Framework may be useful to you for this project.