Flash Menu at Gamespy.com? Anyone peg this one?

[MustangManny]

I know there was a thread for this a while back and I understand that it requires transparent Window Mode and that it only works on IE. That said, I still would like to know how they managed to place a small menu area ( a table with gifs) that when rolled over becomes a flash menu that takes up about 4 times the space of the initial gif menu table. If you look at the page in an editor, you would see that the initial menu is a regular gif in a table. But when it rolls over, it turns into a flash menu that overlaps the rest of the page under it.
I was able to create a flash menu but its dimensions would push the content under the table ( in gamespy's page it would a logo or gif of some sort )because of its size and that would defeat the purpose.
Been trying to figure this out for weeks.

Can anyone please shed some light?
OldNewbie, where art thou??

Thanks in advance.

 

[wangbar]

Not sure I'm looking at the right part of the site but if you mean the part I think you do it looks to me like it's all done in Flash. Are you talking about the very top menu of the homepage? If you right click on any part of that the properties panel displays "About Macromedia Flash Player 5".

 

[oldnewbie]

First off, this is a Flash movie from the start. Don't see what standard gif menu you're talking about.
So yes, it's probably using the transparent mode (this is not available through NS) and... What's your next question?
You've been trying to do the same, but it's pushing down the table underneath it... Is that it?

ldnewbie

 

[MustangManny]

Hello there,

Although I use Dreamweaver, I looked at the code via FrontPage by clicking on the edit button on top of the IE browser. This opens up the page in WYSIWYG in Frontpage and that is where I saw the menu bar as an image mapped table with gifs and javascript infused to it (despite the fact that when you right click at it on their live site, it displays as a FLASH file). Whew! That said, if you right-click on the logo and the gray area directly above it, it will tell you that it is a gif. So at this point wihtout activating the menu and right click on it, it is a flash file about the height of 1/4" but when you roll over it, it apparently quadruples in size. My question is how did they accomplish this? A bogus menu bar that I created which starts out around let's say 50 pixels high and becomes 225 pixels in height when rolled over will still take up 225 pixels on my page despite the rollover state when I place it in dreamweaver because the movie size has to be 225 to accomodate both rollover states. So when I do place this swf into Dreamweaver it takes up 225 pixels of space automatically which then would not let me place a.....

>>Brain freeze resolved<< D'oh!

As I was writing this, it dawned on me. They used a gif for a background image so when the flash menu was in the rest state it seemed as if there was an image file behind it, well technically it is, but a background gif. : )
Glad that's done! Thank you for your patience.

Thanks again.