Does Menu conflict with Flash loading in IE on XP?

Poster: imaginus
Dated: Wednesday April 21 2004 - 22:12:58 BST

We are trying to use a Menu next to a flash graphic which overlaps the flash graphic when moused over. On IE on XP Pro, the flash graphic won't load. Any ideas??!? It works in other browsers on other platforms -

http://www.eliasgroup.com/2004/home.html

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Thursday April 22 2004 - 0:40:00 BST

A url would be helpful just in case it's something else.

Ruth

Poster: imaginus
Dated: Thursday April 22 2004 - 0:48:17 BST

sorry - I guess the URL does help! here it is:

http://www.eliasgroup.com/2004/home.html

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Thursday April 22 2004 - 1:13:27 BST

I have ie 5.5 and win98, all I get is a black box in the center, nothing playing. Is it supposed to be playing something?

Ruth

Poster: imaginus
Dated: Thursday April 22 2004 - 13:35:28 BST

That black is supposed to be flash - any ideas?

Poster: fredlongworthhighschool
Dated: Thursday April 22 2004 - 13:44:33 BST

When I try (XP and IE6 / Avant) it looks like the two windows containing text at the right hand side are also overlapping the animation.

Normally you can right click on a Flash animation to get certain settings but I'm not getting anything on yours. There isn't a layer that's covering it is there?

Poster: imaginus
Dated: Thursday April 22 2004 - 14:44:37 BST

I would like to be able to overlap the menu on the flash - that can be done right? What is starnge, like you said, is that there appears to be no flash there at all. I'm struggling to figure out the solution!

Poster: John
Dated: Thursday April 22 2004 - 15:09:20 BST

I'm seeing the same overlap as you, Andy (XP Pro/IE6).

Just for fun (!), try moving all 4 of the menu calls to the end of the page, after the Flash call.

Poster: imaginus
Dated: Thursday April 22 2004 - 17:58:54 BST

Sorry folks - I found the problem. Turns out the flash movie was missing a referencing attribute. All appears to be well - thanks for everyone's time!

Poster: John
Dated: Thursday April 22 2004 - 18:14:07 BST

That's OK. Glad you got it solved.

Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Thursday April 22 2004 - 18:15:08 BST


I see you've figured out the param problem in the <object> code and got it loaded in IE. I noticed it earlier but got interrupted before I could reply... sorry. I noticed a couple of othr things that might also be worth checking. You seem to have additioal parameters set that aren't really parameters as far as I know. In your object code, you have

I suspect that was just a generic "placeholder" to show syntax for setting parameters in an object tag. I'd remove it. In the <embed>, you have

That is also probably meant only to show syntax for setting attributes in am embed tag. It isn't a real attribute, so I'd remove it also.

Your menu should overlap the flash OK with most modern browsers. You'll have difficulties with older or crappier browsers, like NS4x or Opera, where the menu (or any other dhtml element) will fall behind the flash. Best to test your layout in th browsers that you care about. If the layering becomes a problem, you can either (1) redsign the layout so that menus never oerlap flash or (2) put the flash in a div and hide it when an overlapping menu opens. There are discussions on the board about option 2 (you'll find them by searching the forums for 'flash'). The Milonic code is also able to facilitate the div hiding approach... you can see a sample here.

Hope that helps,

Kevin