Flash and fireworks pop-up menu

message from forums.macromedia.com on 22 Jul 2004
I have a navigation popup menu and a flash movie on the same page. The
problem is that in the area where they overlap the flash movie comes on top
and the pop-up menu cannot be seen. How can I solve this problem?
 
Murray *TMM* replied to forums.macromedia.com on 22 Jul 2004
In short, you cannot.

There are two serious problems on the page -

1. You are trying to put layers (the pop-ups) over Flash (Active content).

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

2. You are using the DW/FW pop-up menus, a known death trap -

http://apptools.com/rants/jsmenu.php
 

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