menu overlay flash movie?

[Navarone]

Does anyone know how to get a popup java script menu to overlay a flash movie in a html document?:)

[splict]

if its in the same html page then it can't. :( Flash is embeded as an object and always shows up on top.

-splict

[Navarone]

what do you mean
the same html page ?

the following web site has a drop down menu that overlays a flash movie.

www.virtualhorizons.com

[splict]

interesting. That is what I meant by 'the same page.' I think they are using some ie only stuff, like WMode. I also see some other stuff in the source that I'm not sure about. However, if you visit it with Mozilla, you will see that they use a picture instead of a flash movie.

Sorry, for answering incorrectly as I didn't know of an Internet Explorer workaround. If you don't mind it being IE only, hopefully someone else can offer a solution.

[boyzdynasty]

the menu list is not overlaying over the flash movie...it is actually behind it.

In order to do the over...need to set the the layer position higher so it can be over the flash movie.

I'm not sure of the exact code...but anyway...

Using dreamweaver to generate the list is basically tables created in a layer above the content that is on the html page.

It's seems that when you embed flash movie it has higher priority....

Sorry I don't have the exact solution for you....but take a look at the code it generates in the .js file (assuming you are using dreamweaver) and set the layers higher.

[Navarone]

For those of you who are interested, I found a solution. When you publish your flash movie, you can set the window mode to transparent or opague. In this case you want it to be transparent. This will alow the menu to appear over top of the flash movie.


<PARAM name="wmode" value="transparent">


Please not however this seems to only works in IE browsers.:)

[binkyboo]

Another, more complex method (An IE only solution).

http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/jking/archive/2003/07/21/488.aspx

[boyzdynasty]

looks interesting binky!

[splict]

yeah, I metioned the wmode method in my second post. Your link offers an interesting solution I hadn't thought of though, binkyboo. Thanks!