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1/5/2007 5:58 AM
 

Hallo,

i've got a flash-object in my text-module.
Everytime i dropdown my menu it disappears behind the flash-object.

If I dopdown the menu again, it shows up correctly.
Is it a known issue? How to solve this? 

DNN-Version: 3.1.1

 
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1/5/2007 7:58 AM
 

Hi Advin
All "video" uses an "Overlay". Essentially another transparent screen on top of the normal visible screen.
Typically this transparent screen uses a block of colour to "key"  the video or clip to a specific area although other methods exist. Yo may also find some form elements have this same undesirable behaviour.

Many asp.net menus have built in solutions but I am afraid I do not have a solution for DNN although as I came up against this very problem myself  recently I would be interested to know.
Have you Googled this ?  I will try to do so later.  It may also be worth having a look on the Adobe forums. This may be fixable from the Flash side of things rather than DNN.

Edit - a little later.
I googled this and found a couple of JS menu sites with the following (potential) solution (untried).

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You can fix this by including a parameter when you embed your flash.
Use: param name="wmode" VALUE="transparent"

For IE type browsers
and

wmode="transparent"

in the embed tag for mozilla firefox browsers.

Hope it works - no time to try yet

Ian

 


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1/5/2007 8:56 AM
 

I had the same problem a while back on www.ENCAP.net where the menu disappeared behind the flash file on the home page, and I added the wmode="transparent" and it worked. Here is the code I used to make it work, so you can see what I did (I also used the code from Kirupa so you don't have to 'click to activate' the flash file):
<SCRIPT src="flashobject.js" type=text/javascript></SCRIPT><DIV id=flashcontent style="WIDTH: 700px; HEIGHT: 175px" align=top></DIV>
<SCRIPT type=text/javascript> var fo = new FlashObject("/Portals/0/loader.swf", "animationName", "700", "175", "8", "#FFFFFF"); fo.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "sameDomain"); fo.addParam("quality", "high"); fo.addParam("scale", "noscale"); fo.addParam("loop", "false"); fo.addParam("WMode", "transparent"); fo.addParam("align", "left"); fo.addParam("BGColor", "#FFFFFF"); fo.write("flashcontent"); </SCRIPT>
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www.FEECO.com | www.ENCAP.net

 
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1/5/2007 8:59 AM
 

Hi Ian,

unfortunately no success. I already tried the wmode="transparent" before and also tested on Firefox and IE 7 but on both it didn't behave the way  i wanted, menu still behind the flash object.
its alos behind it when i use the flash-module instead of the text-module.

I will go on googling and hopefully i can solve this.
I'm a little bit suprised to find such few information about this as i think that this behaviour is not occouring on my site only.

Regards

 
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1/5/2007 9:34 AM
 

I've seen this "solved" by hiding the flash when the user hovers over the menu: like at http://www.minhembio.com/ (it's not DNN but try the menu to see what I mean)

 

 
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