Flash button problem in Firefox

Hello.
I am using a flash button to replace html email links
throughout the site as a method to control email spamming.
A lot of the areas I am doing this, the flash email link
appears amidst a paragraph of text.
This seems to work and displays perfectly in IE.
However, in firefox, the embedded flash object wants to start
a new line/paragraph which messes up the flow of text.
Does anyone know a fix for this?
Here is a link to a page where this is happening. Scroll
horizontally to the 2nd to last column (under "who would have said
any cover band would have lasted 18 years?") and note the EMAIL
link in red in EXPLORER. Then look at it in FIREFOX and see how it
starts a new line with a gap.
http://dev.informarch.com/wm/feature/feature.html
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
(by the way...I know horizontal scrolling is not
preferred...but thats not what this thread is about....thank
you.)

Hello,
Try this and see if it works
In your HTML go to where the <object> tag is that loads
your flash button.
Add this parameter within it.
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
Then add the following inside the <embed> tag
wmode="transparent"
This is taken from an article from this site
http://www.bigismore.com/flash-related/flash-zorder-always-on-top/

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Flash button problem when scrolling

Hello.
I posted this in Dreamweaver forum as well....just in case.
I am using flash buttons for email links in my web site
rather than html email links to help with spamming.
They work great except for one thing. In my site I have a
fixed Div on the left of my pages. The content scrolls sideways
underneath the fixed div. However....the flash buttons scroll over
the TOP of the fixed div while the rest of the content goes under
as it is supposed to. I have the fixed div set at z-index of 2.
This isn't an issue in Firefox, only IE7, so far.
Any one know of an easy fix for this rather than creating a
new div for each of the buttons?
Here is the link to the problem page - its the email link in
red towards the end of the page. Watch the link go OVER the drums
as you scroll. (it should go under)
http://dev.informarch.com/wm/article3/flashBtnScrollexample.html
Thanks in advance for any help.
Ken

Hello,
Try this and see if it works
In your HTML go to where the <object> tag is that loads
your flash button.
Add this parameter within it.
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
Then add the following inside the <embed> tag
wmode="transparent"
This is taken from an article from this site
http://www.bigismore.com/flash-related/flash-zorder-always-on-top/

Flash buttons work in FireFox but not IE

Please can someone please take a look and see if they can
figure it out cos i can't!
roundshaw (dot) co (dot) uk
The increase and decrease flash buttons at the top of the
page works ok in FireFox but not in Internet Explorer.
Can anyone see what i have missed that stops it working in
IE?
thanks in advance for your help.
Jason

Hello again,
Yep, sounds like you've got the general idea.
hries22 wrote:
I'm going to start from scratch and give it another go...would you reccomend converting every button to a symbol? Then give the symbols a mouseover, click, and mouseout?
I'd take all the elements that make up the button, and convert that into a symbol. Then you can go to labels with your code without worrying about the main timeline. Put all your code on the elements themselves, and not on the symbol instance.
hries22 wrote:
Also - and this minor - but is there a way to get a button's mouseover area to recognize transparency? For instance - I'll use a .png with transparency for a button...let's say the T-shirt. I want the mouseover to activate only when the mouse is over the t-shirt, and not over the transparent area around the t-shirt...any thoughts?
By default, the hit area of a div in HTML is its bounding box. Right off the top of my head, I'm not sure there's a way to change it...maybe someone else can chip in?
EDIT: here's an old-school way...could be a lot of work: http://www.svennerberg.com/2008/09/imagemap-rollover/
hth,
Joe

Flash Layering Problem in Firefox , Please Help.

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I am having a problem with Firefox and Safari. I am trying to
place video over an already emdedded flash file. Here is an example
www.mjmi.com when viewed on IE the layering is fine and you can see
both flash videos. When you view it in Firefox or safari my video
with the actors falls to the back of the original flash video.
I have tried every type of positioning but the video keeps
falling behind the other one.
Does anyone have a solution for this? With out having to
combine the flash files.
Thanks so much
here is my code if that is the problem
<div id="flashAdd" style="position:absolute; left:25px;
top:98px; z-index:1000">
<script>myprintln('<OBJECT
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" z-index:"0"
codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0"
width="496" height="300">');
myprintln('<PARAM NAME=movie
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myprintln('<PARAM NAME=loop VALUE=false>');
myprintln('<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>');
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myprintln('<param name="menu" value="transparent">');
myprintln('<EMBED
src="<cfoutput>#Request.MainUrl#</cfoutput>video/home_1.swf"
loop=false quality=medium bgcolor=#FFFFFF wmode="transparent"
width="496" height="300" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
PLUGINSPAGE="
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">'); myprintln('</EMBED>');
myprintln('</OBJECT>');</script>
</div>

and if you will ask in order that he to put for top with a
level of the type:
_root.creatEmptyMovieClip ("my_mc", 5);
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Phone keeps ringing on the caller's end - Is This a Call Waiting and Flash Button Problem?

I had FIos phone service installed 2 weeks ago. I am having a sporadic but regularly occurring issue with incoming calls that I think might be related to the Call Waiting and flash button so I am looking for some input. Before describing the issue here are a couple of things to know:
- I have my Verizon voice mail service turned off on my account.
- I have the call waiting function set to off.
- On my phone handset the Talk and Flash operation is the same button.
Now here is my issue. Often but not 100% of the time people are telling me that the phone just rings and rings on their end. After receiving many complaints since my Fios install that the phone rings and my phone answering machine does not pick up the call I have been calling my home phone number with my cell phone and I have determined the following:
1. My home answering machine will pick up the call, however on my cell phone which is the calling end the phone is still just ringing.
2. Sometimes I will press the talk button but there will be dead air but on my cell phone which is the calling end it will still be ringing.. But if I press the Talk/Flash button a couple of times the call completes.
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Flash buttons problem

Hi All,
I am looking to attach this code to a flash button on click
<form method="POST">
<P><Input type="submit" value="table lamp on"
name="run_event"></P>
</form>
the code above sends a command to run an event to my home
automation server
thanks in advance

You cannot apply links to Flash elements using HTML. All
interactivity in
such elements MUST be done in Flash Actionscript.
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> I am looking to attach this code to a flash button on
click
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> <form method="POST">
> <P><Input type="submit" value="table lamp on"
name="run_event"></P>
> </form>
>
> the code above sends a command to run an event to my
home automation
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> thanks in advance
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I am quite new to actionscript but when building a simple app
that calculates amounts when you press on a button it only works if
I use a library button and not my customised one. I have checked
that the button is a button symbol and has four states but whenever
I use my own customised button I get error message...the library
button works fine with the actionscript.
Here is the error message I get with my custom button - any
idea why?
thanks
Em
**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=buttons, frame=1:Line 2:
Invalid mouse event specified.
on(click) {
**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=buttons, frame=1:Line 3:
Statement must appear within on handler
with(_parent){
**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=buttons, frame=1:Line 6:
Unexpected '}' encountered
Total ActionScript Errors: 3 Reported Errors: 3

Know the type of button:
1. Button Symbols made in library:
on (press)
on (release)
on (rollOver)
This appears the one you are deploying.
See
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/00001752.html
2. The Flash Button Component:
... where there is a click event handler
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/00003114.html
3. Custom buttons created with a MovieClip Symbol.
Use Actionscript and the methods for responding to events for
example onRelease -
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/00002499.html

Can't make Flash button work in firefox and safari

I'm creating an Entry Page slideshow here with Flash Cs3 and AS2:
http://vaforestwild.com/
I'd like to be able to click on the whole slideshow (or the "Enter Site" text) to go to another page on the site, which I'm calling "vaforestwild.com/home.html." I've read various tutorials all day and tried many things, but couldn't seem to apply any "on release" action to the "Enter Site" text that would work. I even created an invisible button (putting a keyframe on just the HIT state and deleting it from the UP state), named the instance "invbutton3", and then typed in this action on the first frame and inserted a keyframe at the end of the show:
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The cursor changes to a hand, but nothing happens when clicking on the show. So I was experimenting with modifying the Object text in the head section of the index file where the slideshow is located and I stumbled on something that made the clickable link work in Internet Explorer, but not in Safari and Firefox. I modified the object text to read like this:
onfocus="MM_goToURL('parent','http://vaforestwild.com/home.html');return document.MM_returnValue"
(Previously, it had http://vaforestwild.com/index.html and would just start the slideshow over if you clicked on it)
Here is the entire <object> text:
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" name="slideshow" width="945" height="400" id="slideshow" title="vfwg-slideshow" onfocus="MM_goToURL('parent','http://vaforestwild.com/home.html');return document.MM_returnValue">
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>vfwg-entryshow2</title>
<script language="javascript">AC_FL_RunContent = 0;</script>
<script src="AC_RunActiveContent.js" language="javascript"></script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#003333">



<script language="javascript">
if (AC_FL_RunContent == 0) {
alert("This page requires AC_RunActiveContent.js.");
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   'scale', 'showall',
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   'name', 'vfwg-entryshow2',
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   'allowFullScreen', 'false',
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   'salign', ''
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</script>
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<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" width="945" height="400" id="vfwg-entryshow2" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" />
<param name="movie" value="vfwg-entryshow2.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#003333" /> <embed src="vfwg-entryshow2.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#003333" width="945" height="400" name="vfwg-entryshow2" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
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</noscript>
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Since the html page didn't work, I tried dragging the swf file into my index page and Dreamweaver automatically produced the "embed object" text that I pasted in my previous email. Incidentally, I was mistaken when I said that text was in the head section. It wasn't, it was in the body. Here's the script code in the head section:
<script type="text/JavaScript">

    </script>
Okay, so now I have produced a test page to work on here:
http://vaforestwild.com/slideshowtest.html
I started over by letting Dreamweaver create the object text again, and here's what I have (script in the head is the same as above) The only change I made is in the size of the width and height, which Dreamweaver thought was 32x32 :
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="945" height="400">
<param name="movie" value="vfwg-entryshow2.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="vfwg-entryshow2.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="945" height="400"></embed>
</object>
I believe my problem is most likely related to how I'm applying action to my button in Flash. I find the tutorials somewhat confusing and I am unable to do exactly what the tutorials say, even though the writers specify they are using AS2. I'm going to be continuing to try different things and I'll report back if I am successful. In the meantime, if you have any suggestions based on the information I've provided, I would love to hear them. Thank you!
Deane Dozier

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I'm not sure if this will solve your problem, though I can
take a stab at it. Do your buttons contain text also? Sometimes if
I find buttons with text that is not selectable behaving slightly
blinky, I make sure the text inside the button is a movie clip and
the situation resolves. It seems to produce a more stable hit state
overall.
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hello-
I haven't used flash to create a website for a while and I am feeling really lost. I have looked through countless forums and such and tried all sorts of things but nothing seems to be working. Basically- I have a set of 6 soon to be buttons and two movie clips. I want each of the buttons to trigger a certain part of both movie clips to play as well as going to a web page. There is also a little character at the bottom that I want to play part of a movie clip when clicked. (I'm sorry if this sounds really jumbled). I have figured out multiple ways so that when I click the little character it will play the clip-I placed the action to do this in the main timeline. However the action that plays this little movie clip plays it no matter what I click on. How do I make sure that only a certain thing I click on plays the action?
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Hey Forums,
I am using Dreamweaver CS3, for a website. For the page I
used a 3 column elastic with header and footer.
On the left sidebar I have four flash buttons, and whenever I
preview the page in Mozilla Firefox, the upmost button for some
reasons aligns to the right. I have no alignment settings set, and
the alignment for the sidebar is set to left. It only happens in
Firefox, not Safari nor Internet Explorer. I attached the code, if
you need anymore info, ask.

>
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> ne
> r.net
In the dialog box for the Flash Button, in the link box, put
the full
absolute path if an external page. Including the
http:// part.
http://www.example.com/page.html
for pages inside your site- use the browse to file icon, and
use a relative
path.
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

Need help troubleshooting problem: Flash hangs after using Firefox (on mac) back button - works fine on all other browsers

to reproduce:
1. click on a flash button that takes you to a new html page
2. hit the back button on browser
3. flash button hangs
I've included a test page as an example below.
the bug is specific to having used the flash button and is specific to the Mac version of firefox. The PC version seems to work fine.

What is the address of the first page? The only thing that link you posted in your information was the page that says, "now hit the back button and see if flash hangs after clicking on the flash button".

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