Quick Tip: Layering Flash over Flash
Recently I was asked to help on a project which involved a lot of Flash work. During one of the meetings someone suggested that we absolutely position a small Flash file over top of a larger background Flash file. Since none of us had actually done that before, I was given the task of figuring out if this would work in all of major browsers.
After a couple hours of testing I concluded that it will indeed work. In order to do so, the background Flash file MUST be transparent (accomplished by setting wmode="transparent"). Once that's done you can layer whatever you like over top of it including a 2nd transparent Flash file, a solid-color Flash file, or any kind of HTML content.
Browsers tested were:
IE 5.2 (Mac)
IE 5.5
IE 6
IE 7
Firefox 1.5
Firefox 2
Safari 1.3
Safari 2
Camino
Opera 9
Netscape 7
Netscape 8
1 Comments
Careful: wmode transparent SWFs will sometimes flicker in Safari if you are using alpha effects.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=showdetails&productId=1&postId=1801
Posted by: Nicholas Livadas | February 25, 2007 11:50 PM