Re: [Flashcoders] Flash on top of flash
You won't get much luck overlaying anything on top of a flash player. Not even another flash player. I think that the correct solution here is to use just one flash player that loads both movies. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash on top of flash
Try wrapping your swf in a span or div and set the z-index to that.
Also, set the object and embed z-index to inherit in your css.
object, embed { z-index:inherit; }
Work in some browsers, but by-and-large very buggy.
I would go with Henrik's suggestion if you can.
You would think this bug would have been fixed years ago.
But, i digress..
Best,
Karl
On Sep 21, 2011, at 2:40 AM, Henrik Andersson wrote:
You won't get much luck overlaying anything on top of a flash
player. Not even another flash player.
I think that the correct solution here is to use just one flash
player that loads both movies.
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Re: [Flashcoders] Flash on top of flash
This will probable be inconsistent across browsers and operating systems, however you can always try! Also, if you can get it to work, you may lose all 2D (and in the future 3D) acceleration by the video card, as everything will have to be processed in software From memory, window and direct modes allow for 3d, opaque and transparent specifiy software and allow overlays of other content, eg. html menus popping up over the flash, possibly other flash player instances too. see here for more details: *wmode* - Possible values: window, direct, opaque, transparent, gpu. Sets the Window Mode property of the Flash movie for transparency, layering, positioning, and rendering in the browser. If this attribute is omitted, the default value is window. For more information, see Using Window Mode (wmode) valueshttp://kb2.adobe.com/cps/127/tn_12701.html#main_BrowserSupportForWmodes below. http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/127/tn_12701.html On 21 September 2011 16:09, Mikael Enroos mikael.enr...@paf.com wrote: Hi, I’m trying to position a windowed swf on top of another windowed swf on my site. The underlaying swf (windowed) is the main application and now I need to add a separate swf on top of it, which is another application. I tried with some css work including z-layer but without any luck. Has anyone else done this? Mikael Enroos Webmaster ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash on top of flash
Hi, I had to do some similar hacky workaround for a site that wanted a flash navigation that expanded over the top of HTML. The Flash had to be fullscreen for the intro and then shrink vertically to be the navigation bar at the top of the screen when content appeared. The only way I could figure to do this was to have Flash call JavaScript after / before each transition to change the css and expand / contract the Flash div over the top of the other content. If the non-intersecting parts of your 2 swfs is rectangular, this might work for you? HTH Glen On 21/09/2011 07:09, Mikael Enroos wrote: Hi, I'm trying to position a windowed swf on top of another windowed swf on my site. The underlaying swf (windowed) is the main application and now I need to add a separate swf on top of it, which is another application. I tried with some css work including z-layer but without any luck. Has anyone else done this? Mikael Enroos Webmaster ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash on top of flash
You're pretty much guaranteed some weirdness in the display. I was able to get this working, in a few latest-greatest browsers, but even there if you had motion happening in both layers at once I was getting some odd artifacts and overlaps. I dont think the browsers, or Flash for that matter, are really set up to deal with layered object's. .m On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Mikael Enroos mikael.enr...@paf.com wrote: Hi, I’m trying to position a windowed swf on top of another windowed swf on my site. The underlaying swf (windowed) is the main application and now I need to add a separate swf on top of it, which is another application. I tried with some css work including z-layer but without any luck. Has anyone else done this? Mikael Enroos Webmaster ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash on top of flash
SWF on top of another SWF: in Flash or in HTML ? In Flash, it could be easier, by loading the SWF into a container, and doing a '_lockroot' (if AS2) hth, Cedric You're pretty much guaranteed some weirdness in the display. I was able to get this working, in a few latest-greatest browsers, but even there if you had motion happening in both layers at once I was getting some odd artifacts and overlaps. I dont think the browsers, or Flash for that matter, are really set up to deal with layered object's. .m On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Mikael Enroos mikael.enr...@paf.com wrote: Hi, I’m trying to position a windowed swf on top of another windowed swf on my site. The underlaying swf (windowed) is the main application and now I need to add a separate swf on top of it, which is another application. I tried with some css work including z-layer but without any luck. Has anyone else done this? Mikael Enroos Webmaster ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash on top of flash
ok, but overlaying a container over another container in Flash is somewhat straightforward. What isn't is the way the 2 SWFs could/must communicate ... thanks for the precisions I think we're specifically talking in HTML here. I meant that Flash isnt really designed to display while overlapping multiple swf objects embedded in an html page. .m 2011/9/21 Cédric Muller flashco...@benga.li: SWF on top of another SWF: in Flash or in HTML ? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash on top of flash
Yep, I agree, I'm not the original question-asker though, just tryin to help :) .m 2011/9/21 Cédric Muller flashco...@benga.li: ok, but overlaying a container over another container in Flash is somewhat straightforward. What isn't is the way the 2 SWFs could/must communicate ... thanks for the precisions I think we're specifically talking in HTML here. I meant that Flash isnt really designed to display while overlapping multiple swf objects embedded in an html page. .m 2011/9/21 Cédric Muller flashco...@benga.li: SWF on top of another SWF: in Flash or in HTML ? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash on top of flash
There is an old solution - put the top layered Object in its own HTML page, and load that into an iframe, then position the iframe over the windowed flash movie. I haven't tried that in ages, but I think it still works. Kevin N. On 9/21/11 2:09 AM, Mikael Enroos wrote: Hi, I'm trying to position a windowed swf on top of another windowed swf on my site. The underlaying swf (windowed) is the main application and now I need to add a separate swf on top of it, which is another application. I tried with some css work including z-layer but without any luck. Has anyone else done this? Mikael Enroos Webmaster ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash on top of flash
With that solution, I have an idea. Using Flashvars and javascript. Set up a javascript file that tells when the two flash files are hovering over each other and have it put an invisible png between them. This png will be inside a div, so technically you would put the div between them. Making the png stretch to the size of the bottom swf. Cover it. Basically blocking any flash interactions on the one below? Also, in order for this to work, I think you may want to assign z- index:0 to the body. That way it explicitly sets zero first. extra swf z-index:3 div z-index:2 transparent png img/div main swf z-index:1 Kind-of like an invisible button does inside flash. Not tested, JAT, Best, Karl On Sep 21, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Kevin Newman wrote: There is an old solution - put the top layered Object in its own HTML page, and load that into an iframe, then position the iframe over the windowed flash movie. I haven't tried that in ages, but I think it still works. Kevin N. On 9/21/11 2:09 AM, Mikael Enroos wrote: Hi, I'm trying to position a windowed swf on top of another windowed swf on my site. The underlaying swf (windowed) is the main application and now I need to add a separate swf on top of it, which is another application. I tried with some css work including z-layer but without any luck. Has anyone else done this? Mikael Enroos Webmaster ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash on top of flash
Unless you need them to interact. In that case they need to be in the same swf. Best, Karl On Sep 21, 2011, at 6:30 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: With that solution, I have an idea. Using Flashvars and javascript. Set up a javascript file that tells when the two flash files are hovering over each other and have it put an invisible png between them. This png will be inside a div, so technically you would put the div between them. Making the png stretch to the size of the bottom swf. Cover it. Basically blocking any flash interactions on the one below? Also, in order for this to work, I think you may want to assign z- index:0 to the body. That way it explicitly sets zero first. extra swf z-index:3 div z-index:2 transparent png img/div main swf z-index:1 Kind-of like an invisible button does inside flash. Not tested, JAT, Best, Karl On Sep 21, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Kevin Newman wrote: There is an old solution - put the top layered Object in its own HTML page, and load that into an iframe, then position the iframe over the windowed flash movie. I haven't tried that in ages, but I think it still works. Kevin N. On 9/21/11 2:09 AM, Mikael Enroos wrote: Hi, I'm trying to position a windowed swf on top of another windowed swf on my site. The underlaying swf (windowed) is the main application and now I need to add a separate swf on top of it, which is another application. I tried with some css work including z-layer but without any luck. Has anyone else done this? Mikael Enroos Webmaster ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash on top of flash
If it's like a popup thing, I guess you'd want to block access - however, that won't work anyway in wmode=window. The iframe is what divides the two swfs, and allows the one on top to display over another swf with wmode set to window (which as I understood it could not be changed), by forcing the browser to create another system window (for the iframe). Kevin N. On 9/21/2011 7:30 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: With that solution, I have an idea. Using Flashvars and javascript. Set up a javascript file that tells when the two flash files are hovering over each other and have it put an invisible png between them. This png will be inside a div, so technically you would put the div between them. Making the png stretch to the size of the bottom swf. Cover it. Basically blocking any flash interactions on the one below? Also, in order for this to work, I think you may want to assign z-index:0 to the body. That way it explicitly sets zero first. extra swf z-index:3 div z-index:2 transparent png img/div main swf z-index:1 Kind-of like an invisible button does inside flash. Not tested, JAT, Best, Karl ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash on top of flash
If one the two swfs need to interact (if I understood) LocalConnection could be used. That works even when two swfs are on different domains, running in two different browsers (as long as they are on the same machine). Kevin N. On 9/21/2011 7:38 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Unless you need them to interact. In that case they need to be in the same swf. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash on top of flash
That's true. I've done that. I was referring to a drag-and-drop scenario of interaction I guess. Karl Sent from losPhone On Sep 21, 2011, at 8:25 PM, Kevin Newman capta...@unfocus.com wrote: If one the two swfs need to interact (if I understood) LocalConnection could be used. That works even when two swfs are on different domains, running in two different browsers (as long as they are on the same machine). Kevin N. On 9/21/2011 7:38 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Unless you need them to interact. In that case they need to be in the same swf. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
