Changing arbitrary flash objects wmode to transparent

Question

I need to change wmode of arbitrary flash objects to transparent from external js file to make sure they don't hide menus without using Jquery or similar libs.

In FF I use getElementsByTagName("embed") and set attribute. It seems to work well.

Specifically I'm having trouble with object set by swfObject library In IE7.

swfObject creates the following code in iE7:

<OBJECT id=mymovie height=400 width=134 classid=clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000>
        <PARAM NAME="_cx" VALUE="3545">
        <PARAM NAME="_cy" VALUE="10583">
        <PARAM NAME="FlashVars" VALUE="">
        <PARAM NAME="Movie" VALUE="imgs/site/tower.swf">
        <PARAM NAME="Src" VALUE="imgs/site/tower.swf">
        <PARAM NAME="WMode" VALUE="Window">
        <PARAM NAME="Play" VALUE="0">
        <PARAM NAME="Loop" VALUE="-1">
        <PARAM NAME="Quality" VALUE="High">
        <PARAM NAME="SAlign" VALUE="">
        <PARAM NAME="Menu" VALUE="-1">
        <PARAM NAME="Base" VALUE="">
        <PARAM NAME="AllowScriptAccess" VALUE="">
        <PARAM NAME="Scale" VALUE="ShowAll">
        <PARAM NAME="DeviceFont" VALUE="0">
        <PARAM NAME="EmbedMovie" VALUE="0">
        <PARAM NAME="BGColor" VALUE="FFFFFF">
        <PARAM NAME="SWRemote" VALUE="">
        <PARAM NAME="MovieData" VALUE="">
        <PARAM NAME="SeamlessTabbing" VALUE="1">
        <PARAM NAME="Profile" VALUE="0">
        <PARAM NAME="ProfileAddress" VALUE="">
        <PARAM NAME="ProfilePort" VALUE="0">
        <PARAM NAME="AllowNetworking" VALUE="all">
        <PARAM NAME="AllowFullScreen" VALUE="false">
</OBJECT>

I tried every possible way to set wmode to transparent and make the flash not hide floating objects without success including but not limited to:

1. Search for OBJECT and change its PARAM wmode to transparent.
2. Set attribute of Object (wmode=transparent)
3. Call the object's SetValue function

None seems to work. Although the wmode seems to change Flash still hides other objects with high z-index. What am I missing here?

Answer 1

I've been successful with this little trick:

$("embed").attr("wmode", "opaque").wrap('<div>');

It effectively redraws the flash object, worked for me.