Filling with background color

hi, i am trying to do something that paints some controls on the screen, and if a control reacts in a certain way, it should be repainted. the problem is, some controls are small, so instead a 'repaint' handler for all the screen, it would be nice to just repaint the part that changed
in other words, instead of
graphics.clear();
repaint_all();
i would like to have something like
graphics.beginfill(ERASE, 1);
erase_component();
redraw_component();
which i believe would be faster. the reason i can not just say 'fill with background colour' is beacuse 1. background color can be arbitrary, (though it would be nice to have a flash-provided constant or a maccro called BACK_COLOR or something), and 2. because in this case in particular, the background may be a picture (bmp, jpeg whatever) in a sprite below. if i paint a solid block, the block will not erase but instead appear as a block over the background picture. is there anything in flash as an 'erase' fill?
2. (not related with question title). how do i a. turn off all default options in right click menu (except the 'about flash', wich can not be turned off if running player as stand alone), and b. add a custom item in right click menu
tnx

hi, i know there is a graphics object for each thing. i am making my own event handler, i have all controls as pictures in the same object (as the system does, i am doing it without delegating to the system or flash) tnx for the contextmenu tip

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