I’ve created a basic radial context menu that can be used for simple tool selection or navigation. Because of the right-click limitations in Flash/Flex I have made it accessible with Ctrl-click, but I may apply the javascript hack that makes right-click possible.

There are 2 standard modes of interaction. If you Ctrl-click without moving the mouse, the menu will stay open, allowing you to pick a tool. As users become more familiar with the navigation, they can select the tools with a single click and drag in the right direction.

This is very much an alpha level component. I may look into developing it further if anyone is interested in using it. At the moment the ’segments’ of the pie are fully skinnable, and the options in the menu are specified by a dataProvider, so it can be driven from XML, Arrays, etc.

Check it out