Menu behind flash in Firefox 3

Poster: enchant
Dated: Friday October 3 2008 - 17:29:20 BST

It seems that this has been asked a lot lately, but I don't see any simple step-by-step instructions on how to resolve it. Most people simply report that they've fixed it. Here's my site:

http://www.verteccorp.com/indexnew.html

What do I need to do so that the dropdown menu appears in front of the flash?

Thanks.

Re: Menu behind flash in Firefox 3

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Saturday October 4 2008 - 19:39:14 BST

Have you read this post?

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=9928&sid=2c8c2fd006ea793ad2d80aa686cdd613#p46916

You have to have the winmode set as noted, in all areas, object and embed.

Ruth

Re: Menu behind flash in Firefox 3

Poster: enchant
Dated: Saturday October 4 2008 - 19:59:48 BST


I did, and I made the changes, but it didn't make a difference.

However... I found another location where the wmode was set slightly differently from what was in that post, and when I changed the value from "window" to "transparent", the problem went away.

Thanks so much!!

Re: Menu behind flash in Firefox 3

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Saturday October 4 2008 - 21:09:21 BST

Hi,

Yes, as the post says winmode has to be set to transparent, that is a Macromedia fix for the problem they have with Flash.

Ruth

Re: Menu behind flash in Firefox 3

Poster: Petaco
Dated: Thursday November 13 2008 - 5:17:31 GMT

Hello,

I bought the milonic menu a couple of months ago and I have the famous "menu under flash" problem in Firefox. I did a lot of things and theres no way to make it function.

My page is this one: http://www.wineaccommodation.com/index.htm

As you can see with the wmode: transparent. I could solved it in 3 swf of the page: "Contact Us", "Newsletter" and "New Accommodation". The problem came with the map on swf. If i put the wmode: transparent it works, but the map gets a white background (it is blue). If i put the parameter background inside the embed, object, etc,,,, it still gets white. I really dont know how to solve it, any ideas please?

Thanks You.

Petaco.

Re: Menu behind flash in Firefox 3

Poster: John
Dated: Thursday November 13 2008 - 14:34:31 GMT

Petaco,

You might have solved it faster by having up-to-date software. You're running 5.796, which puts you about 5 months behind. Current version, required for help here in the forum, is 5.807.

Re: Menu behind flash in Firefox 3

Poster: Petaco
Dated: Friday November 14 2008 - 1:25:36 GMT

Thanks,

Problem solved with other solution (putting the DIV background color). I tried to updated to the latest version and suddenly it got a mess. I finally could retrieve to the old version and now it works find. I have now another issue with a blinking menu in IE but i will post it in a new post.

Thanks.

Damian

Re: Menu behind flash in Firefox 3

Poster: wpatters1229
Dated: Wednesday April 22 2009 - 5:13:18 BST

Help me out here: go to www.fragilex.org/html/contactus.htm and tell me why the menus hide behind the flash form but do not hide with IE browsers. I have set the z-index in the menus. I have another page "about the foundation" that uses some AJAX and the menus know there place in both browsers.

Any idea on what to do with the menus or do I alter the object tag in the flash/xml/javascript area of the form?

Thanks

Here is the code I am talking about.

<script type="text/javascript" src="contactform/swfobject.js"></script><div id="CC2946680" align="center">Form Object</div><script type="text/javascript">var so = new SWFObject("contactform/fragilex_contact_form.swf", "contactform/fragilex_contact_form.xml", "613", "425", "7,0,0,0", "#ffffff");so.addParam("classid", "clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000");so.addParam("quality", "high");so.addParam("scale", "noscale");so.addParam("salign", "lt");so.addParam("FlashVars", "xmlfile=contactform/fragilex_contact_form.xml&w=613&h=425");so.write("CC2946680");</script>

Re: Menu behind flash in Firefox 3

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Wednesday April 22 2009 - 7:03:09 BST

Hi,

Well, I can't test this on my desktop with all the files on the desktop because I keep getting an error with regard to the xml file. However, I tried adding a param and using your website path to the files and it seems to work, so you need to add the wmode transparent parameter. Following your setup, which I know nothing about, I think it would be so.addParam("wmode", "transparent"); Try that and see if it works, if not, I'll need some other flash form that doesn't use xml since that seems to be what the problem is when I put it on my desktop.

Ruth

Re: Menu behind flash in Firefox 3

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Wednesday April 22 2009 - 7:10:15 BST

Oops, forgot something. You have milonic_src.js and mmenudom.js and milonic_menu_code.js. Either use milonic_src.js and mmenudom.js or use milonic_menu_code.js, that last file is a combination of the other two. I think those who still use the mmenuns4.js use the two, but those who don't just use the menu_code file.

Ruth

Re: Menu behind flash in Firefox 3

Poster: wpatters1229
Dated: Wednesday April 22 2009 - 17:32:46 BST

Thanks Ruth

I am not that great at programming so thanks for the tip on how to add that para. This form is a coffeecup web form which works great but is a flash file that is being feed by the xml file. I use other AJAX on the site and the z-index in the menus works just fine.
I will make that change to the milonic files. I was using netobjects fusion many years ago to build this site and they have what is called masterborders which act like DW templates. I now am slowly converting the site to DW and introducing include files etc.. I guess I will add this to my todo list of changes for the pages. I have not noticed the menus having a problem with both files. Any reports on what might happen?

B

Re: Menu behind flash in Firefox 3

Poster: wpatters1229
Dated: Wednesday April 22 2009 - 17:42:41 BST

Still not working. I added so.addParam("wmode", "transparent"); to the end of the settings in the code and it still has the menus behind the contact form. Is there anything else I might try? I can add the xml code to a post if that would help.

Re: Menu behind flash in Firefox 3

Poster: wpatters1229
Dated: Wednesday April 22 2009 - 17:50:31 BST

Just a note on the menus. I removed the combined milonic_menu_code.js file and then my menus started showing milonic as the first item so I removed the two other files and the menus still work. I do not remember which is the newest version, the two files or the single file.

thks

Re: Menu behind flash in Firefox 3

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Thursday April 23 2009 - 3:40:30 BST

Hi,

Well, I just noticed you are downlevel on the menu. The newest version is 5.819 so you need to upgrade. The reason you are getting the milonic link when you use the two files is that you have an unlicensed version that you are using instead of the one with your license, while the milonic_menu_code file is your licensed version. So you must have both a licensed and unlicensed version of that level, the dowload contains all three files. And, I don't think you can add that parameter at the end, the end is after the write part.

OK, here is what I put in on the page I downloaded to my desktop, of course I used the full path so I'd get the files from your site for the form and not get the error in FF. When I did that and that page I had downloaded on my desktop the menu dropped over the flash in FF2.0.0.18 and 3.0.8



So, put that code on your page on your site and see if it works, if not post back.

Ruth

Re: Menu behind flash in Firefox 3

Poster: wpatters1229
Dated: Thursday April 23 2009 - 6:59:57 BST

That was the problem...putting it on the end after the write. THANKS
I have two accounts at milonic and since my login email has changed and the old one can not receive email it has become a mess to see the one acct that has the fragilex.org acct. It maybe a mute point since the acct license expired a few days ago. This is a non-profit but looking at the new rules for free menus we no longer qualify since the foundation is paying me for my web services since I became unemployed about 9 months ago. Every little bit helps.
Therefore since they are paying me It says I will have to buy a license...$49 I do not have right now. Will just have to either wait or switch to a menu system that dreamweaver has or a long time program from XARA Webstyles which builds a centralized menus system.

Thanks again for the help.

PS I can show a link on our home page to milonic if that will renew the license for free.

Re: Menu behind flash in Firefox 3

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Thursday April 23 2009 - 7:32:35 BST

Hi,

Well, isn't the license for the fragilex.org site, which is a non profit? I dont' know how to do the free license for non profits stuff, so you need to contact Milonic about this. I am not a Milonic employee and have no association with them, except I love the menu and enjoy helping on the forum

So, I cannot say one way or the other about the license.

Note that there are changes being made, which it says on that page. It is required that all pages with the menu have a visible link, most put it at the bottom like the website services link, but saying the following. Javascript Menu Provided by Milonic.com

As to the login email, I would think you could login like it used to be, then go to the mydetails page and edit it to give the correct email.

Ruth

Re: Menu behind flash in Firefox 3

Poster: wpatters1229
Dated: Thursday April 23 2009 - 17:33:21 BST

just for the record I tried the changing the email and it said it could not since that email was used on another account...I'm caught in milonic limbo.

Thanks for the help.

Re: Menu behind flash in Firefox 3

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Thursday April 23 2009 - 19:04:12 BST

Hi,

I think you will have to contact Milonic about all of this, it isn't some thing I can address. Have you considered setting up another email address?

Ruth