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Posted: **14 Feb 2011, 15:41**

Hi,

I just updated from 2.5 to the new 2.6 version and noticed that adding the wmode: transparent to the gallery template doesn't work anymore for displaying custom html elements on top of the gallery.

I've placed a div with some icons just above the start of the table in "index.gallery.phtml" using the following code:

<style type="text/css">
        .icons img {margin-top: 15px; padding-right:8px; border-style:none;}
        .icons {padding-right: 17px; position: absolute; top: 0; right: 0; color: #fff;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="icons"> <!-- Icons: metrostation-3025 -->
    <a href="#/content/"><img title="Home" src="ico/home.png"></a>
    <a href="#/content/about/"><img title="About" src="ico/info.png"></a>
    <a href="http://www.facebook.com/xxxxxxx" target="_new"><img title="Facebook"src="ico/facebook.png"></a>
    <a href="#/content/contact/"><img title="Contact" src="ico/email.png"></a>
</div>
<table>

In v2.5 I used this code (only added wmode) which worked perfectly

swfobject.embedSWF("<?php echo IV_PATH; ?>imagevue2.swf", "imagevue", "100%", "100%", "8.0.0", "<?php echo IV_PATH; ?>expressInstall.swf", flashVars, {allowScriptAccess: 'always', wmode: 'transparent', allowFullScreen: true, bgcolor: '#<?php echo $this->bkGrColor; ?>'}, {id: 'imagevue', name: 'imagevue'});

The new code has changed slightly, so I have added the wmode setting to the params var above the SWFloader:

params={allowScriptAccess: 'always', wmode: 'transparent', allowFullScreen: true, bgcolor: '#<?php echo $this->bkGrColor; ?>'};

I see there is a separate one for IE that has wmode: opaque as the setting. I guess this has to do with the wmode changes relating to the new sharing services?

Am I doing something wrong here or is there another way I could solve this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated
Bob

Posted: **15 Feb 2011, 00:04**

Don't use transparent, just remove <-- if [IE] --> comments around the <script> with wmode:opaque and it will do the trick.

We thought we could go with opaque being set only for IE but the rabbit hole went deeper unfortunately.

Posted: **15 Feb 2011, 03:45**

Just tried it, but still not working. The only thing that seems to have changed since 2.5 is that it's not responding to the wmode setting. When I inserted that in 2.5 it worked perfectly.

Posted: **15 Feb 2011, 04:18**

bobhamers wrote:Just tried it, but still not working. The only thing that seems to have changed since 2.5 is that it's not responding to the wmode setting. When I inserted that in 2.5 it worked perfectly.

Do you have a link to your gallery? It is not like we can control wmode or div on top of flash in any way - Either wmode is set or its not.

Posted: **15 Feb 2011, 04:20**

it's on http://home.bobhamers.nl/

Posted: **15 Feb 2011, 04:43**

Apparently, this is not wmode related. Just add z-index to your custom .icons {} class:

z-index: 4;

Posted: **15 Feb 2011, 08:45**

Ah, thanks! It works.

Should have thought of that, but didn't need it in the previous version so it just didn't occur to me.
Don't need the wmode change at all now.

Thanks a bunch!

EDIT:

Firefox does seem to need the wmode: opaque setting. Deleted the IE conditional and works like a charm cross browser!

Posted: **15 Feb 2011, 10:49**

We need to look into wmode again, and in which browsers/platforms it is applied.

The problem, is that there is a bug were mousewheel functionality is disabled when wmode is enabled.

Posted: **15 Feb 2011, 11:15**

Ah, I figured, because I keep getting a js error

'swfmacmousewheel' is undefined

Doesn't seem to hurt anything though.

Posted: **18 Feb 2011, 01:30**

What is the browser you use? This error is appearing in IE but there are conditional comments around <script src> so you shouldn't be seeing this.

Posted: **18 Feb 2011, 06:27**

pain wrote:What is the browser you use? This error is appearing in IE but there are conditional comments around <script src> so you shouldn't be seeing this.

It is not the <script src>, it is this:

swfmacmousewheel.registerObject(attributes.id);

Posted: **18 Feb 2011, 09:14**

I'm using IE, but it's not the conditional script. It still happens when I remove it completely.
Also getting an error in Firefox though:

Error: swfmacmousewheel is null
Source: http://home.bobhamers.nl/#/content/
Line: 168

That has to do with the line mjau-mjau mentioned.

Posted: **18 Feb 2011, 09:50**

Right, sorry about this, just added the fix to the code for the next version. If you want to get rid of this, do the following.

Replace

swfmacmousewheel.registerObject(attributes.id);
With:

if (swfmacmousewheel)
swfmacmousewheel.registerObject(attributes.id);

in /iv-includes/templates/gallery.index.phtml

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