[Laszlo-dev] clipped Flash movie in div container hides Settings Panel

[Henry Minsky]

Ugh, that sounds like a painful problem.

Macromedia seems to have made it impossible to get rid of the settings menu
or to operate it under program control.

The only thing I have seen is that they send a callback right before they
display the menu:

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=Flash_MX_2004&file=00001276.html

But I don't know what you can do with that information. You could make your
div larger for a moment I guess, using Javascript to the browser. That's the
only thing I can think of :-(


On 10/12/05, DL <dl.lists at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> I have Flash 8, 0, 22, 0 viewer installed in Win XP Pro.
>
>  I am embedding an openlaszlo-3.1 compiled Flash object into a <div>
> container which is smaller in width and height than the embedded movie size.
>
>  And I am using CSS style to clip the div container view.
>
>  div.myMovie {
>  position:absolute;
>  top:200px;
>  left:50px;
>  clip = 'rect(0px, 1200px, 200px, 0px)';
> }
>
>  i.e. the bottom of the movie is clipped.
>
>
>  I am using this approach to build partial views (skin components) from a
> larger movie (canvas = 1200x800).
>
>  When I right click on the (clipped) movie which is visible in the div
> container, to view Macromedia Flash Settings, the movie changes opacity (as
> normal).
>
>  But the Settings Panel, with close button, is not visible (because the
> Settings Panel area is located outside the div clipped area).
>
>  When I right click on the movie in an unconstrained div (equal in size to
> the movie), the Settings Panel is visible again.
>
>  For the first case, with a clipped movie in div, can the openlaszlo
> compiler force the Settings Panel into view on right click? Or is there an
> option to suppress the Macromedia Flash Settings Panel?
>
>  Currently I cannot get out of this locked state since there is no visible
> close button.
>
>  Any ideas?
>
>  DL
>
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Henry Minsky
Software Architect
hminsky at laszlosystems.com
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