Hi

I think this got lost in the huge message I sent before, so I am pulling ot out to see if anyone has an idea. I got a flash image rotator to work on the site, but it blocks the menu dropdowns. I really like that kind of menu system, so how do I go about fixing it? It's almost like in Photoshop where a layer is blocking another layer and needs to be moved back.

You can see it at http://www.gtaog.net/home (don't just to to the site as www.gtaog.net because it will redirect you to our main site).


Thanks again

In His service

Bill

Bill,
Does this overlap only occur in Internet Explorer while still working fine in Firefox and other browsers? If that's the case, its related to the window mode in Flash. By default, Flash in IE is drawn on the top layer above menus and other content. When you're dealing with plain HTML, you can change this by setting wmode="transparent" in your HTML.

When we throw a TYPO3 extension into the mix, the question becomes how to set the wmode. For the slideshow extension, it looks like you can do this through Typoscript by adding the following code to the setup portion the Typoscript template on your home page (accessible through the Web->Template module).

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I think that should do the trick for you

Thanks,
Jeff

Jeff

It happens in all browsers. I did as you said, cleared all cache and it still is the same. Here is what is in the template constants section now:
extension.slideshow.typeNum.flash_main. = tx_slideshow_pi1
extension.slideshow.typeNum.flash_main >
extension.slideshow.typeNum = 9005
plugin.tx_slideshow_pi1.playerParams.transition = fade
plugin.tx_slideshow_pi1.width = 474
plugin.tx_slideshow_pi1.height = 251
plugin.tx_slideshow_pi1.playerParams.navigation = 1
plugin.tx_slideshow_pi1.swfParams.menu = true
plugin.tx_slideshow_pi1.swfParams.wmode = transparent

Let me know what you think.

In His service

Bill

Bill,
Do you still have the wmode settings in place? I don't actually see that coming through in the HTML but when I copied your Typoscript and tried it locally, it did work as expected.

Thanks,
Jeff

Jeff

I went to Web > Template, then selected the Home page. On the right I'm in Info/Modify then select Constants to edit. Once there I added that wmode setting and saved it then cleared the cache. (it still shows there when I go back and look at it).

It looks like those parameter settings in the html are coming from the constant editor section under Template Tools. I go there and thise are the settings I see matching in the html (but there is no place that the wmode shows up there).

I emailed you the login and password last week, so if you want to look be my guest. I'm not sure why it is not working.

Thanks again

In His service

Bill

Jeff

After looking at the files associated with the slideshow extension, I see that parameter you wanted me to use is not available to use. As I had said previously, I am looking for an extension that would let me do things like on http://www.jeroenwijering.com/ (there is an image rotator there that accepts a link associated with an image and I believe the transparent mode you are looking for). Do you know of anyone that has made this into an extension or is going to? Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

In His service

Bill

Hey Bill,
Thanks for the followup. I missed a little problem in your original post but noticed it when you described the steps in more detail.


You'll actualy want to put the line about wmode in the setup section rather than the constants section. Once you do that, I think it should work.


The parameter isn't officially documented, but the extension actually supports passing anything you want as part of the swfParams Typoscript. The wmode parameter is something that Flash always understands for every Flash file so its just a matter of getting it to actually show up in the HTML output.

Thanks,
Jeff

Jeff

I did as you asked, and I see the wmode parameter in the html but it still doesn't work

Any other suggestions? I want to really do something like on our present site (with the image being hot and linking to a page associated with that particular image, etc) but was trying this for now. Any idea if someone is working on something like this as an extension or if a different one would work for what I want to do? I like the one's Mark has on his church's home page, but I don't think it is an extension. At this point in time, I would probably even go for something like that if I could understand how to have a template main page that is diffent from the rest (well I actually do now here), but that I can put multiple flash areas etc, but allow for something like my events area on the present site.

Can I have a main page that is actually NOT part of the template and have the template part start after that? If so, can you point me to where I need to go to read about how to do this?

In His service

Bill

Bill,
Let me dig into this a little more tomorrow. We've seen this problem in the past and wmode always cleared up it. I'll have to see if there's something different with this particular template series.

Thanks,
jeff

Jeff

Did you get a chance to check out why the menu is blocked by the flash slideshow extension I used?

Thanks again

Bill