onMouseover a flash element?

Question

I can't figure out how to fire a javascript event when rolling over a flash element even though it's on wmode:transparent.

I have tried to put a transparent sensor div over the flash element with the onMouseover event and it worked but the flash became useless and totally unclickable.

Appreciate Any ideas.

Thanks

Answer 1

This is much simpler than ExternalInterface if you're looking for just simple mouse detection on an entire SWF.

Just target the <object> or <embed> tag that's embedding the SWF via Javascript.

document.getElementById("content-banner").onmouseover = over;

function over(evt)
{
 alert("moused over");  
}

http://jsfiddle.net/p7YkA/

Answer 2

Use the ExternalInterface and call a JavaScript method dispatching the event from Flash.