Flash Movie - Layer Arrangement Problem

message from BeniFxTrader on 24 Jul 2004

Hey Everyone - quick question.
I've important a flash (.swf) file into my DreamWeaver. There's an area of my
flash video that I leave blank through the playback so that I can add a layer
with text over the video. My problem is...how do I get a layer with DreamWeaver
text to show up over the flash (.swf) file? When I'm working with the flash
file and the new layer that shows on top of the video...I upload the saved
.html to my server and can only see the video...no layer (that's supposed to
show above the video).

Thanks,
Benjamin

Murray *TMM* replied to BeniFxTrader on 23 Jul 2004

All Active content on a page will always rise to the top, so to speak,
including Flash, certain form elements, Java applets, and Active X controls.
This means that each of these will poke through layers. There is not a good
cross-browser/platform reliable way to solve this issue, but if you can be
confident in your visitors using IE 5+ or NN6+ (Windows only), then you can
use the Flash
wmode parameter. It doesn't work in all browsers (NN4) or platforms (Windows
only) but it's implemented in the latest netscapes:
http://devedge.netscape.com/

MM articles:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/flash_top_layer.htm
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/wmode.htm

Aziz's solution -
http://www.bezworks.com/lab/opaque.htm

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