Stretching outside the limits

1

Hey!
ive seen in a few places were pressing a button drops down a menu, which extends outside the size of the flash movie.
So that it goes over whatever text is actually underneath the movie.
Ive tried to do the same by just making the menu go below the movie, but that just gets cut off , any suggestions?

thanks =)

2

I’m no expert here, but in my opinion that is impossible.

What are you seeing is either not flash, or the part the menu is extending over is also flash, and thus the menu is not moving outside of the flash movie.

3

i wish i could remember page i saw it on so i could show u… but

when u opened menu i sideclick on it and it had the about macromedia flash player thingys and the options , so it was flash

then when i closed it , i sideclicked in same area, now there was no flash options on ly the usual html page menu… with the cuttign and pasting and stuff

RAWR

4

I think that’s only possible with JavaScript…

5

could they have had a java script calling in a page with flash on it and moved it over there on an event from flash?

6

there is a parameter for the embeded flash… To my knowledge it works only in explorer.
<param name=wmode value=transparent>
This makes the background of your flash transparent.
A swf like this could be put on a layer in any html page… and then on rollover it will give you the impression of resizing the stage or something. But the swf is always big and over the page… only that you can see through it.

Do I make sense :)?

7

and to answer your question is possible to access javascript functions that are in the html, from flash.


on (press) {
getURL("javascript:function_name(parameters)");
}
8

wow think of the esiest way, use a frame layer in dreamweaver, thats how i did it on a page. (it gets annoying to the user really fast though if you make it on rollover, so try not to) Oh ya almost forgot you have to turn on transparent background or this will not work.

9

are you talking about the kind of effect they use on www.fandango.com ?
(the sims 2 one in particular…)

those are done using a combination of dhtml ( or java ) and flash with a transparent background. it works on both mac and pc although it Really slows down on a mac.

i’ve been messing around with this myself actually… i havn’t had time to put it all together just yet, but here’s the dhtml portion of the code you’d need: http://www.akae.net/_dev/floatingAds.txt

i don’t have the tutorial on how to make flash transparent…but just google it or search kirupa. i know ive seen it here b4.

i belive all these kinds of adds come back to this technique.