I am using Flash to create some animations for PowerPoint presentations for one of the professors on campus, and I have come across a problem.
I want to place something on TOP of the animation (the .swf file) in the presentation… you know, like text, or a command button. I have tried the obvious: right click the swf and click “Send to Back”… it doesn’t do the trick.
Anyone have any ideas about how I can accomplish this? The Shockwave Movie is behaving as an embedded ActiveX component in the Presentation, for what it’s worth.
LilShieste
Can’t be done. Powerpoint loads all of its components before activating the embedded layer, meaning that your Flash object will always be topmost. There is no work around other than moving your labels and buttons somewhere else.
If you animate your text, then once the embedded object has finished, I’m pretty sure you can have the text animation APPEAR ON MOUSE CLICK. I know you can do it with video, not sure about swf.
You can also animate your text to APPEAR AUTOMATICALLY and then your swf to play ON MOUSE CLICK. So in presentation mode, the components will get loaded, then then the embedded layer will get loaded and then the animation will start which will place the text on top of the embedded layer.
This should make the text appear on top of the swf until you click and then the swf will move to the front, play and if you have ANOTHER text box, you can animate the 2nd one to appear ON MOUSE CLICK.
Maybe that doesn’t make sense, but play around with the custom animation and you may be able to work around it by being a little clever (and redundant).
HTH