Once again:flash hiding menu with IE5/MacOS9 & Mozilla/L

[flash]

i'm having the well-known pull-down menu problem with flash & would like to know if COOLjsMenu-Pro might be solution.

With IE5/MacOS 9 & Mozilla/Linux Flash-Objects seem to be always on top, therefore the menu items become invisible.

Does anybody here has experiences with COOLjsProMenu and flash content under IE5/MacOS 9 or Mozilla/Linux? Or is there a url with a test installation?

I know I'm not the first one here to bring up this problem: http://javascript.cooldev.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=376. There it is recommended, to put the flash into a div-tag and just hide the flash. But my project manager doesn't like this solution .-)

any suggestion welcome,
thanx
Olaf[/url]

[AlexKunin]

COOLjsMenu Professional has nice solution for this problem, but it works for IE5.5+ only. Alas, there are no known workarounds (we were investigating this problem quite deeply, and I can say that there are no workarounds for other browsers, excepting IE5 - but this one will become very unstable, belive me).

Also, menu has not-so-nice workaround: it can hide Flash (or combo, or IFRAME, or whatever) while submenu is visible. Looks not very nice, but quite usable.

[ridleystudios]

Simple solution from the Macromedia folks...
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15523

You basically need to make the background of your Flash movie transparent.

1. Add the following PARAM to the <OBJECT> tag...
<PARAM NAME="wmode" value="transparent">

2. Add the following within the <EMBED> tag...
wmode="transparent"