[vet-mm] menu question

[Rob Swain]

The solution is to mount the flash based menu in a seperate div tag that partially overlaps lower html content on the web page -- when the drop-down menu unfurls it will then exist in front of the html content.
You need to ensure the flash movies bg is transparent - to do this see Adobe tech note at http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14201 or Google "transparent background on flash movie".
 
Rob Swain
Gordon Institute
 
 

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Sent: Wed 28-May-08 1:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [vet-mm] menu question



Hi John,
I had a play to see if there was an easy fix, but alas no luck. I ran into the same dilemma as you with the flash document needing to be the expanded size or else it didn't function.
A possible work around could to break up the menu items as separate flash files and then create a CSS dropdown menu using the individual flash files.
There is a file attached to show the structure of a CSS dropdown menu if that is of any help.
Good Luck
Yours Sincerely
Peter Fowler
Swinburne Senior Secondary College


> EDWARDS. John <edwajoh1 at lavalla.sale.catholic.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> I have a question with Flash. My students are creating a drop down menu.
> It  runs horizontally and as they move over each menu item, a menu drops
> down. That works nicely, however, it seems that we have to save the
> Flash as the size that incorporates the drop down menu. So when it is
> imported into a webpage the flash file is the maximum size and not just
> the size of the initial horizontal bar. I hope this makes some sense. Is
> there any way to get around this?
>
> Many Thanks,
>
> John Edwards
> Lavalla Catholic College
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