
<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">well, adobe.com uses a modified version of swfobject, nothing fancy there.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>if you look at the embed properties, you'll see that they are setting their wmode to 'opaque', which allows you to layer things over the Flash movie.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You should have a look at how they do their CSS dropdowns - maybe there's some code there you could borrow :)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 28, 2006, at 11:00 PM, ZONE EGG wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Dear all,<BR><BR>For the Flash file covering the CSS drop down menu problem, is that what you want to achieve, just like the new Adobe homepage?<BR><A href="http://www.adobe.com/">http://www.adobe.com/</A> <BR>You can see the drop down menu covering the flash file. <BR><BR>Can we find any cludes from the adobe homepage?<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR>IvaN<BR><BR><BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 6/22/06, <B class="gmail_sendername">Brion Keith Mills</B> <<A href="mailto:brion.keith@gmail.com"> brion.keith@gmail.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><DIV>Thanks Mike!<BR><BR>I will certainly use this for future reference. <BR></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="sg"><BR><BR> - Brion</SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="e" id="q_10bf77bf9a706eed_2"><BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 6/21/06, <B class="gmail_sendername">Michael Ypes</B> <<A href="mailto:michael.ypes@the3rdroom.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> michael.ypes@the3rdroom.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><DIV> <DIV link="blue" vlink="blue" lang="EN-GB"> <DIV><P><FONT color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Hi Brion</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><FONT color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P><FONT color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I had to do exactly the same thing a while back and I got it to work fine. What I did find however is that not all the cross browser (supposedly) compliant js dropdowns worked cross browser. As Geoff said it probably isn't a problem with the swfobject but more with the js code.</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><FONT color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P><FONT color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">If you look at this site ( <A href="http://www.ellesco.co.uk/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://www.ellesco.co.uk</A> ) it does exactly what you want. Feel free to rip it out and use it. The drop down is done using bullet lists aswell so it is search engine friendly. Can't quite remember where I got it from but it is a well known drop down solution which I have got working over flash.</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><FONT color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P><FONT color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I will try and remember exactly where I got the drop down menu from.</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><FONT color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P><FONT color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Hope this helps.</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><FONT color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P><FONT color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Cheers</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><FONT color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P><FONT color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">M</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><FONT color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV> <DIV style="text-align: center;" align="center"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN style="font-size: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k!</SPAN><BR> <BR> <SPAN>Brion</SPAN><BR> <BR> <SPAN>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</SPAN><BR> <SPAN>Brion K. Mills </SPAN><BR> <SPAN>Web Designer</SPAN><BR> <SPAN>1105 Media, Inc.</SPAN><BR> <SPAN>9121 Oakdale Ave.</SPAN><BR> <SPAN>Chatsworth, CA. 91311</SPAN><BR> <SPAN><A href="mailto:bmills@1105media.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">bmills@1105media.com</A> </SPAN><BR> <SPAN>(818) 734-1520 x206</SPAN><BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> </SPAN></FONT></P> </SPAN></DIV> <DIV> <DIV><P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">_______________________________________________</SPAN></FONT></P> </DIV> <DIV><P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">SWFObject mailing list</SPAN></FONT></P> </DIV> <DIV><P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"><A href="mailto:SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com</A> </SPAN></FONT></P> </DIV> <DIV><P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"><A href="http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com </A></SPAN></FONT></P> </DIV> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV><P style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"><BR> _______________________________________________<BR> SWFObject mailing list<BR> <A href="mailto:SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com</A> <BR> <A href="http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com</A><BR> <BR> </SPAN></FONT></P> </DIV><P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"><BR> <BR clear="all"> <BR> -- <BR> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR> Brion K. Mills,<BR> Interactive Media Designer<BR> Creative Mills Design<BR> <A href="http://www.creative-mills.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.creative-mills.com </A></SPAN></FONT></P> </SPAN></DIV><DIV></DIV> </DIV> </DIV><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>SWFObject mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com </A> <BR><A href="http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com</A><BR> <BR> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR clear="all"><BR>-- <BR>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR>Brion K. Mills,<BR>Interactive Media Designer<BR>Creative Mills Design<BR><A href="http://www.creative-mills.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> www.creative-mills.com </A> </SPAN></DIV><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>SWFObject mailing list<BR><A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com">SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com </A><BR><A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com" target="_blank">http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com</A><BR> <BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">SWFObject mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com">SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com">http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>