Have run into a new problem (most problems are new for me, not very experienced
in Flash myself):
I'm trying to place a flash menu over top of a flash panorama player
(
http://flashpanoramas.com/)
The flash panorama is 100%x100% of the window. Then we have an interactive
flash menu which has several items, and when items are clicked on that menu
movie expands and plays a video.
Originally I was inserting the flash menu embedded inside the panorama, using
the flash panorama player to load the menu itself. The issue with this is that
we want to have the quality of the panorama set to "low" when in motion, to
keep the speed and fluidity high. This causes the menu to get rendered in "low"
when the panorama was in motion - which makes it appear unsatisfactory.
So the second solution was to create another absolutely positioned DIV in the
HTML, which is overlayed and positioned in the top left corner of the screen.
This gives the same appearance, but causes some interaction problems. When you
click and drag in the panorama to interact with the panorama, then move the
mouse over the flash movie in the higher (in depth) layer, the panorama looses
"sight" of the mouse and the mouse no longer controls the flash movie.
What I need is to make sure that even when the user is interacting with the
menu, the mouse position and clicked state is still transmitted to the flash
panorama player
below.
Is this possible? Sorry I can't share a demo right now, the site is a bit of a
shambles while all the parts are being developed.
John