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Author Re: How Do I Manage Flash in Layers? (Drop Down Menus in Front of Flash???)
Jeckyl

2005-05-06, 7:20 pm

Either do the menus as part of the flash, or use opaque wmode (do NOT use
transparent)
--
Jeckyl


Nate Kadlac

2005-05-09, 11:14 pm

Setting the Z index does nothing when dealing with layers and Flash. All you
need to do is set the properties of the Flash element to transparent. This
will allow DHTML layers to fall in front of the flash.

**Add this where it states the parameters: <param name="transparent">
**Add this to the Embed Src tag: wmode="transparent"



"karltraum" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:d5g1v7$i2v$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> I have a colleague who has a site where there are HTML generated dropdown
> menus. There is also a flash movie element. When the menus are

moused-over
> they drop down, and need to fall across the area occupied by the flash

movie,
> at least partly (in the same way Macintosh menus fall over the current

app's
> activities on the screen).
>
> I should think layers is the way to go here (I don't have the original

code in
> front of me, but I believe this is how they are doing the menus). What is

the
> best way to make this work? Does flash respect layers coming in front of

it?
>
> Thanks!
>



Jeckyl

2005-05-09, 11:15 pm

NO!!!

Transparent wmode is incredibly buggy and does all sorts of weird things to
corrupt our movie .. don't use it.

try opaque mode, which is much less buggy and still allows you to put other
elements on top of your flash
--
Jeckyl

"Nate Kadlac" <nate@kadlac.com> wrote in message
news:d5ogmq$o2n$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Setting the Z index does nothing when dealing with layers and Flash. All
> you
> need to do is set the properties of the Flash element to transparent. This
> will allow DHTML layers to fall in front of the flash.
>
> **Add this where it states the parameters: <param name="transparent">
> **Add this to the Embed Src tag: wmode="transparent"



Nate Kadlac

2005-05-11, 7:24 pm

Setting the Z index does nothing when dealing with layers and Flash. All you
need to do is set the properties of the Flash element to transparent. This
will allow DHTML layers to fall in front of the flash.

**Add this where it states the parameters: <param name="transparent">
**Add this to the Embed Src tag: wmode="transparent"



"karltraum" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:d5g1v7$i2v$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> I have a colleague who has a site where there are HTML generated dropdown
> menus. There is also a flash movie element. When the menus are

moused-over
> they drop down, and need to fall across the area occupied by the flash

movie,
> at least partly (in the same way Macintosh menus fall over the current

app's
> activities on the screen).
>
> I should think layers is the way to go here (I don't have the original

code in
> front of me, but I believe this is how they are doing the menus). What is

the
> best way to make this work? Does flash respect layers coming in front of

it?
>
> Thanks!
>



Jeckyl

2005-05-11, 7:24 pm

NO!!!

Transparent wmode is incredibly buggy and does all sorts of weird things to
corrupt our movie .. don't use it.

try opaque mode, which is much less buggy and still allows you to put other
elements on top of your flash
--
Jeckyl

"Nate Kadlac" <nate@kadlac.com> wrote in message
news:d5ogmq$o2n$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Setting the Z index does nothing when dealing with layers and Flash. All
> you
> need to do is set the properties of the Flash element to transparent. This
> will allow DHTML layers to fall in front of the flash.
>
> **Add this where it states the parameters: <param name="transparent">
> **Add this to the Embed Src tag: wmode="transparent"



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