Problem mixing Flash/DHTML menu

October 23rd, 2003, 10:46 am

LOL, I have to agree with unflux.

Netscape is up to what? 7.1? I think that's far enough ahead of 4 to call 4 obsolete now.

Pretty much the browsers to code for now are IE5+ and NS6+, since they are the easiest to code cross-browser (since NS6 got an upgrade on HTML and CSS support) and they are typically the the most used browsers other than the most recent versions.

October 23rd, 2003, 10:47 am

my client required it, no idea

October 23rd, 2003, 10:49 am

Your client is going to have to accept that it just isn't possible with the limitations they require

December 8th, 2003, 1:03 am

gohitech wrote:

Hello,
My I have a DHTML menu for my website and a flash image right under it.
When I click on DHTML menu, I cant see the sub menues becasue it appears that they go under the flash image.
However If i use .jpg or .gif files it is fine but I dont want to use them. I want to use flash.
I am kind of new to this stuff. I am an old time programmer and still new to web.

Please help me out.
check out the site and you see what I mean
http://www.gohitech.com/xyz.htm


thanks

HI there you can add something like this: param name="wmode" value="Transparent " with rest of embeded swf file. This will work on explorer and natscape.

Alex
alex@alexnova.com

December 8th, 2003, 9:58 am

Aleksandar Novicic wrote:

gohitech wrote:

Hello,
My I have a DHTML menu for my website and a flash image right under it.
When I click on DHTML menu, I cant see the sub menues becasue it appears that they go under the flash image.
However If i use .jpg or .gif files it is fine but I dont want to use them. I want to use flash.
I am kind of new to this stuff. I am an old time programmer and still new to web.

Please help me out.
check out the site and you see what I mean
http://www.gohitech.com/xyz.htm


thanks

HI there you can add something like this: param name="wmode" value="Transparent " with rest of embeded swf file. This will work on explorer and natscape.

Alex
alex@alexnova.com

I believe the issue was solved on page 1 Aleksandar Novicic


And as a note: Transparent windowless USED to only be for IE on Windows, however, in a version of the Flash 6 player they added support for other browsers on both Windows and Mac machines. Check out this page to see what browsers support transparent windowless flash movies and what version of the flash player started it....

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash ... /wmode.htm

January 13th, 2004, 7:33 am

Hi

I am new here but have had this problem before. I have found the definative answer from Macromedia.

The solution involves making the background of your flash movie transparent so that you can see the DHTML menu when it lies behind your flash. The way to do it is in the HTML of the page, you add some parameters to the embed and object tags and this sets the bg transparent. It obviously wont work if you have a bitmap image as the bg of your flash movie. and it only really works in modern browsers.

here is the link to the technote from macromedia:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash ... _layer.htm

here is a link to the post about setting the wmode:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash ... /wmode.htm

I have it working and it seems to work very well.

February 6th, 2004, 12:04 pm

thank you all

April 29th, 2004, 1:16 pm

There is no need to do any CSS positioning, or saving the SWF file in any special way, as Aleksandar Novicic mentioned, all you need to do is add:

<param NAME="wmode" VALUE="transparent">

into the object HTML tag code (so, in fact, this wasn't fully solved on the first page...)

Simple as that. It could be for older browsers, the CSS was necessary, but if anyone using flash is worried about IE/NS 4... you've probably got many other problems anyway.

Example:
http://www.careusa.org/multimedia/photo ... /index.asp
See the JS menu on the left stays above the flash photo gallery


Enjoy!

.c

June 1st, 2004, 1:49 am

Well, actually I see it's old -- but anyway just wanted to say thanks cause I saw this topic in google, it fixed my flash problem!

THANKS A TON!

June 3rd, 2004, 8:47 am

or in the other case, you can put this on flash object parameters:

<param NAME="wmode" VALUE="opaque">

February 17th, 2006, 7:28 am

Has this problem ever been resolved? im having the same problem

February 17th, 2006, 7:33 am

sorry i didnt see there was a second page when i posted, the answer is right above my post YAY

February 21st, 2006, 12:32 pm

ok i used the <param NAME="wmode" VALUE="opaque"> and this corrects it in IE but it still droping below the flash in netscape and firefox?.....anyone know how to fix this?

February 22nd, 2006, 7:56 am

i got it you also have to add

wmode="transparent"

to the embed tags