transparent movie on normal movie problem

[earl223]

Need some help...

I have a transparent movie (wmode = transparent) on top of a game. Both are separate swfs embedded on an HTML document. The transparent movie is bigger than the game dimensions... and sits on a higher layer (z-index). So yeah, transparent movie on top of a game.

Problem: cannot interact with the game.

I assumed that a transparent movie on an html page will be... transparent, so you can interact with whatever is underneath it (like select some html text). Am i missing something?

[joshstrike]

Unfortunately, even if wmode='transparent', the entire rectangular area of the SWF still prevents mouse events from firing on anything z-lower on the page. Frankly the only way you're going to be able to do this is to have the main SWF load the overlay and add it to the display chain above everything else.

Sorry. God knows the first time I realized this, about a week before deadline on a project I wanted to use a Flash menu bar on, I almost lost my mind.