Javascript sub-menu opens behind the flash animation

[Phudsen]

Hi,

I have a program called Pop-up Menu Creator to create web menus. I created web menus using it, everything is fine. The menu is placed on the left (content), when clicked the sub-menu opens to the right over the main page. I don't have frames.

Everything was fine until I created a flash animation and placed it in the main area. What happens now is that the sub-menus open behind the animation, as if I have two layers. How to make the flash animation run behind the menus when the menus open.

I am using frontpage to insert the flash plug-in.

Thanks a lot
Paulin

 

[oldnewbie]

You need to make the Flash movie transparent, and most probably set your menu on a higher layer/division...

In fact the reverse of the following example, where the Flash movie is on the higher layer/division, over the html content.

If you reverse the z-index, the Flash movie still has to be set to transparent...

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/dhtmlflash.htm

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

 

[Phudsen]

Hi,

I can't make the flash background transparent because it is made of pictures with text on. I don't have layers. What I have is:

Left.htm
Top.htm

I include these on all pages. The flash animation is a page on which I have inlcuded left.htm and top.htm. The left.htm menus are opening behind the flash animation. Please take a look for clear idea.

http://www.fmhs.uaeu.ac.ae/nml2/M20a.asp

Thank you for your help
Paulin

 

[haslo]

Unfortunately, the way browser plugins currently work, they have their own area of the browser window, and nothing else gets to draw in there. Which means there's no way your popup menus will ever be drawn over a flash movie

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what I heard...

haslo@haslo.ch - www.haslo.ch​

 

[oldnewbie]

I didn't mean transparent pictures, I meant a transparent movie = wmode... Did you check my links?

That tranparency has got nothing to do with pictures being transparent themselves...

 

[Phudsen]

Hi,

Thank you for your help.

I solved the problem as follows:

I put the following line in the Object tag
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">

Then I put the following in the embed tag
wmode="transparent"

Then it worked just fine.

I found the solution in Macromedia Site. The additional thing was the wmode="transparent" again in the Embed tag.

Thanks
Paulin