This is very much a post to spare people the hunting I did to solve this very particular problem :).<\/p>\n
I am doing some work for a client that integrates Flex and the Google Earth plugin.\u00a0 This post by Andrew Trice explains the basic integration well<\/a> (it’s very slick!).<\/p>\n However, there was an issue–in Firefox, any balloons popped up by clicking on a placemark were black.\u00a0 The text of the balloon was there–you could see it flicker–but not visible.\u00a0 Andrew references a trick that allows “layering Google Maps HTML\/JavaScript over Flex content,” so I suspected that was part of the issue.<\/p>\n Running the same GE code without the Flex component showed the balloons normally, so that was the issue.\u00a0 A bit of hunting turned up a reference to the wmode parameter being important to such layering (I had a URL, but have lost it.)\u00a0 Then, this post popped up, explaining what the proper settings for wmode were<\/a>.<\/p>\n Basically, if you are seeing black balloons in Firefox when you are placing the GE plugin over Flash, you need to set the wmode to opaque.<\/p>\n [tags]flash,flex,google earth, flex-google earth integration[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is very much a post to spare people the hunting I did to solve this very particular problem :). I am doing some work for a client that integrates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,36,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gis","category-ria","category-web-applications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3481,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}