Flash movie hideing CSS dropdown menu.

[Rigel]

Hi Guys,

Never mind fixed this slight problem it was quite easy after all just a case settings for the embedded file on the page concerened. What I did was:
Open the file (in my case) includes/languages/english/html_includes/TEMPLATE/define_main_page.php and then under Paramaters add another line and write
<param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
and then anyplace in the embed instructions write
wmode="opaque"

and thats it the drop down menue should now show.

Rottie

Rottie - I have the menu working fine in FF but not in IE. Can you possibly take a look and tell me why the IE isn't working? I tried looking into your solution but I have no parameters in the define file. Instead, I built the page using an I frame and have adjusted the parameters in there instead, but still no joy. Any ideas?

Pls see www.plumfashion.co.uk/store. Working in v 1.3.9b

[rottiejoe]

Hi Rigel,

Love your site, very nice. When I open your site in IE or Firefox the first drop down menue is hidden I use IE8 and the most recent Firefox. The code I get for your movie settings are as below, Change the setting for WMode from transparent, marked in red, to opaque and hopefully this will solve your problem.

Regards
Rottie

<PARAM NAME="wmode" VALUE="transparent"> <param name="movie" value="plum_movie_store.dcr"><param name=src value="http://www.plumfashion.co.uk/plum_movie_store.dcr"><param name="quality" value="high"><embed src="http://www.plumfashion.co.uk/plum_movie_store.dcr" quality=best bg############################## wmode="transparent" width="346" height="497" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/" type="application/x-director"></embed></object>

[Rigel]

Rottie,

Thanks for responding. I have changed the parameter you suggested and still no joy. Have IE8 and most recent FF.

Any other suggestions?

Rigel

[rottiejoe]

Hi,

Try this code, its for flash player which is the most popular, I Think. If it does not work let me know. But I seem to remember having to chang this code some time back after Adobe made changes to flash player.

<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="346" height="497">
<param name="movie" value="plum_movie_store.dcr" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="http://www.plumfashion.co.uk/plum_movie_store.dcr" width="346" height="497" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>
</object>

[Rigel]

I'm afraid that doesn't work either unfortunately. It creates a blank frame with scrollbar. The movie object is actually within an I frame. I tried multiple ways to get it direct in through the define pages editor and gave up eventually in frustration. The I frame works but is not ideal as I am aware that IE by default places this at the top level, hence my problem.

I have tried other ideas like moving elements from the hidden part of the drop down but can't get this to behave particularly well.

Thanks for trying though.