Flash Site Design - Re: How Do I Manage Flash in Layers? (Drop Down Menus in

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Re: How Do I Manage Flash in Layers? (Drop Down Menus in

Cpt-K

2006-04-17, 10:33 pm

what is the opaque wmode?

Animal Makers

2006-04-18, 6:38 pm

Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
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"

OK, this works fine on my PC and Firefox, but on my Mac OSX and Firefox it
does not. yes, the dhtml menu overlays the flash, but when I try to hilight a
menu option that is over the top of the flash, the menu dissapears.

See for yourself at http://www.animalmakers.com/Catalog/index-test.php

Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
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

What is the exact html top put in the embed and param statements to make
"opaque" work?

Animal Makers

2006-04-20, 6:54 pm

OK, bringing my curser over the links does nothing at all in IE or FF. However,
if I click on the link, it does stuff.

I see the star appear only in transparent mode. With or without the wmode
command, it looks like a white box. The opaque option just shows me a white box
as well. I am not sure what "opaque" is supposed to do.

Animal Makers

2006-04-20, 6:55 pm

Originally posted by: karltraum[color=darkred]
What OS are you using?

I see the bouncing ball as well. I believe I said this. I checked the page out
in FF, IE and Safari

Originally posted by: karltraum
[color=darkred]
<<content, etc., etc. -- always appear on top[color=darkred]
[color=darkred]

Just kinda wish that there was a solution that worked for all the polular
browsers (ie, firefox, mozilla, safari, etc). It is ridiculous to have to fight
this for each and every browser. It is like they want us to revery back to
flash 2.0 so it would work with everybody.