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

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

David Stiller

2006-04-20, 6:54 pm

Animal Makers,

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

Same as for WMODE transparent. Just change the word "transparent" to
opaque.

Check out these examples, and use your brower's View Source feature to
see the relevant HTML code.

http://www.communitymx.com/content/...1/wmodenone.htm

David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays: http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

David Stiller

2006-04-20, 6:54 pm

Animal Makers,

> OK, bringing my curser over the links does nothing at all in IE
> or FF.

Neither does it for me. Those links are intended to lead you to
different pages that show various implementations of WMODE.

> However, if I click on the link, it does stuff.

What stuff?

> I see the star appear only in transparent mode. With or without the
> wmode command, it looks like a white box.

The reason you see the start in transparent mode is because the SWF
overtop of it is ... transparent. ;)

> The opaque option just shows me a white box as well.

I see a bouncing ball inside the white box. What browser are you using?
What OS are you using?

> I am not sure what "opaque" is supposed to do.

WMODE is the key here, not opaque or transparent. WMODE is a special
mode that allows plug-in content to act as if it belongs in the z-index of a
web document (otherwise, Flash content -- and QuickTime content, and Java
content, etc., etc. [this isn't just a Flash thing] -- always appear on top
of everything else).

WMODE has more than one option. You can do WMODE with a transparent
background or with an opaque background. That said, it is well known (and
well documented) that WMODE isn't 100% successful on all platforms. So,
like with anything else, you have to know your audience and use any tool
(DHTML, CSS, WMODE, JavaScript) when you feel it best matches what your
audience can support.

David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays: http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

David Stiller

2006-04-20, 6:55 pm

Animal Makers,

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

What you said was, "With or without the wmode command, it looks like a
white box," but maybe I misunderstood. Anwway, if you can see the bouncing
ball, you should at least be able to duplicate this WMODE usage in your own
SWFs in the same browsers.

> Just kinda wish that there was a solution that worked
> for all the polular browsers (ie, firefox, mozilla, safari, etc).

Sure, I agree. I wish IE supported CSS better than it does.

> It is ridiculous to have to fight this for each and every
> browser.

Ridiculous or not, it's the way things work in this industry.

> It is like they want us to revery back to flash 2.0 so it
> would work with everybody.

Who's "they"? Flash 2.0 would only work for people who have the Flash 2
Player or higher, of course. ;) Heck, man, all of this business is tough.
What if your users have JavaScript disabled? What if your users are blind
or hard of hearing? What if ... you know, what if?

We can only roll with what we can.

David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays: http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."