PM61842: The popup menu shows up behind the flash object.

Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software 8.5
Rational Software Architect Interim Fix 1 for 8.0.4.2
Rational Software Architect for WebSphere Software Interim Fix 1 for 8.0.4.2

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Abstract:
  
  When using the graphDrawData tag to render a Flash file the
  Z-index of the popup menu is displaying behind the flash object.
  
  Problem:
  
  This scenario only happens when using the Chrome browser which
  is not supported by IBM JWL.
  
  Local fix:
  
  There is no known workaround at this time.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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  The Z-index of the popup menu is displayed behind the flash
  object when visualizing a page that uses the odc:graphDraw
  tag on the Chrome browser.
  
  Setting the wmode of the flash object to 'opaque' fixes this
  error, but it has to be set before the content is loaded and
  setting it via javascript once the page has loaded won't
  work.
  
  The odc:graphDraw tag, however, does not support the wmode
  attribute.
  

Problem conclusion

• The wmode attribute has been added to the odc:graphDraw
  component. Usage is of the form:
  
  ?odc:graphDraw width="600" styleClass="graphDraw"
  height="400" title="Title" showLegend="true" id="graphDraw1"
  yaxisDivisions="10" value="#{testBean.data}" bar="true"
  firstChart="Bar" wmode="opaque"?
  ...
  
  The value of this attribute is then carried to the rendered
  flash object as a parameter:
  
  ?object id="ODCGraphDrawControlVar1Chart" height="400"
  width="600"
  data="/testJWL22/.ibmjsfres/jsl/graphdraw/emfChart2_v3_1_13.
  swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"?
    ?param value="always" name="allowScriptAccess"?
    ?param
  value="callBackFunc=ODCGraphDrawControlVar1.getGraphVariable
  s" name="flashvars"?
    ?param
  value="/testJWL22/.ibmjsfres/jsl/graphdraw/emfChart2_v3_1_13
  .swf" name="movie"?
    ?param value="opaque" name="wmode"?
  ?/object?
  
  The fix for this APAR is included in Rational Application
  Developer v8.0.4.1.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  RATL APP DEV WI

• Fixed component ID

  5724J1901

Applicable component levels

• R804 PSN

     UP