Posted by Daan on 06/17/07 22:09

On Jun 17, 6:40 pm, cwdjrxyz <spamtr...@cwdjr.info> wrote:
> On Jun 17, 9:00 am, Daan <daanst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On one of my websites, I have a menu in the same style as the menu onhttp://codeigniter.com/user_guide/However, when I replace the text
> > content with a flash menu, the behaviour becomes broken: Firefox won't
> > display the flash movie until you click on the place where it should
> > appear, and Safari still displays part of the movie, even when the
> > menu is not expanded.
>
> > I tried to create a workaround using the following javascript code:
>
> > function toggleMenu() {
> > myHeight.toggle();
> > if (menuShowing) {
>
> > document.getElementById('objectFlashMenu').style.visibility='hidden';
> > menuShowing = false;
> > } else {
>
> > setTimeout("document.getElementById('objectFlashMenu').style.visibility='vi sible';",
> > 500);
> > menuShowing = true;
> > }
>
> > }
>
> > In Safari 3 on OS X this works fine, however, in Firefox it still
> > won't display the flash movie until it is clicked on and in IE7 the
> > behaviour is 'weird', sometimes it works, sometimes not.
>
> > Does anyone have experience with this kind of behaviour and perhaps
> > know of a fix or workaround? Thanks for any help.
>
> I had some problems a long time ago with using visibility to switch a
> flash movie on and off. The movie had sound, and although the visuals
> would switch on and off(at least on a browser or two I tried) the
> sound always played on some browsers. I also once had some problems
> with a video(don't remember if it was flash or some other format) that
> was loaded hidden and then switched on at some point, the problem
> being that it did not switch on. The solution was to load the video as
> visible and then use a very short time delay to switch it off at once.
> Then the movie would switch on again when instructed to do so at some
> time.
>
> You might be able to get around this if you can remake the movie using
> the modern flv/swf approach. The actual video is a separate flv(flash
> video) file. The swf is a container file that links to the swf video.
> You can generate all kinds of players and actions in the swf container
> file including auto start or not, various control bars, logos, text,
> etc. More recent official flash authoring programs can do this, and
> there are some other programs at a more reasonable price that will do
> most things that people need for flv/swf.

Maybe my use of the word 'movie' is a little confusing, the flash
object that I have on the website is not a 'movie', but an interactive
menu. It has some animation and clickable areas and serves as the main
navigation for the website.

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