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Author: David Bourgeois
Posted: Mar 27 2008 - 01:30 AM
Subject: Flash and menus
I am using a flash slideshow plug-in (not smoothgallery) and I am noticing that the drop-down menus are obscured by the slide. Is this something easy to fix? I searched the forums and found some discussion on this but no real resolution. See the home page at diamondbarchurch.com - put your mouse cursor on a menu and then wait for the picture to change.

Dave
Author: Jeff Segars
Posted: Mar 27 2008 - 09:47 AM
Subject: re: Flash and menus
Dave,
In wec_flashplayer we've worked around this by using the wmode attribute. Applying wmode="opaque" to the <object /> and <embed /> tags in the generated HTML should cause the menus to overlap the Flash.

The challenge is how to do this using your slideshow plugin. From a quick look, it appears that this particular plugin doesn't support setting the wmode from the Flexform or Typoscript so from what I can see, the only option would be manually modifying the extension's PHP.

Before we go down that road, I'd suggest saving your home page as an HTML file and making the modification to that HTML file. If wmode="opaque" works there, we can explore what your options are.

Thanks,
Jeff
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