Comments on: Son of Suckerfish and Flash

By: Rubie

Rubie — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:04:48 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for your post. It also applies in my problem in Joomla. Thanks much!

~Rubie

By: jason_sot

jason_sot — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:20:58 +0000

works great in FF but I cant seem to make it work in IE7. Any ideas on how to make it work there as well?

By: admin

admin — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:27:24 +0000

Sorry Jake! I didn’t see your comment there -

You must be viewing in IE6. That’s a result of the Eolas lawsuit that Microsoft lost. You want to google “FlashObject” or “SWFObject” javascript to get around that issue.

By: lokin

lokin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:43:52 +0000

AHH-HA! I found it.

I looked back through the code and found a reference to the wmode in the javascript bit “AC_FL_RunContent” that sade it was equal to window. I quickly changed it to transparant and viola! no more sticker float! Hope you dont mind if I paste that specific part here for others?!
In the js that starts

if (AC_FL_RunContent == 0)

look for and replace;

‘wmode’, ‘window’,

with the following!

‘wmode’, ‘transparent’,

Cheers!

By: lokin

lokin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:27:22 +0000

Hi Shelly!

Thank you so much for explaining this! lol, I even tried everything that you mentioned before I found your post. However, after adding the code as instructed, its still not working for me. :[ The flash player is still floating above my son of suckerfish drop downs. Have any ideas or suggestions??!

Thanks in advance!

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:11:59 +0000

I tried your concept for a flash movie under my menu (Town of LaSalle button) and it worked. One problem however is that the following pops up when attempting to click on the drop down menu.

Click to activate and use this control.

Any ideas on how to work around this. I tried saving the site as an xhtml thinking this would make a difference but it didn’t.