flash (macromedia):
When I have auto hide set to true on my FLV file, the controls work great when
I'm looking at the swf file with flash player or in the browser, but once I put
the SWF into an html page or look at the html page flash publishes, the auto
hide is hit and miss. If I move my mouse slowly in and out of the movie it is
more likely to disappear and reappear, if I move my mouse quickly it stays on
the video. Anyone else with this problem?
I found that if I make the flash document say 10 pixels wider on each side than
the movie (so it creates a 10 pixel border of flash stage around the movie),
the auto-hide feature for the controls works perfectly when published to an
html page.
But, unfortunately I need the swf to stay the exact dimensions of the movie
(which I thought was the purpose of controls that sit on top of the movie
rather than below). Is there a setting somewhere or something that I can change
to get auto-hide to work correctly when a user moves their mouse out? Or is
there a way I can define somewhere the rollover region in the movie to be
smaller?
Any help is much appreciated. I wonder how sites like metacafe and youtube
achieve this without these issues?:confused;
I have the same problem and I need to come up with a solution by the end of the
weekend. If I come up with it before you do I will post it here. Otherwise I
am going to need to code a custom player that will adapt to the CSS on the page
(Kill Me).
I needed a solution by today and instead we decided to use the clear controls
over the movie and have auto-hide set to false, but I'd really like to figure
this out.. it seems to make auto-hide a completely useless parameter.
Hi Hillary, I have that problem too. But I have chosen to live with it since
none of the users of my apps have reported it yet. And by the way, I have seen
that kind of behavior with another Flash components in the past. I don't
remember which one it was.
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