Howto Keep Buttons ontop of Webbrowser?? - BUG?

[smarty]

I am wondering if there is a way to keep buttons (browser scroll up and scroll down) ontop (think new layer but different) of the webrowser that is being displayed. Can this be done?

I want to keep displaying the web content that is in the browser window, but I want to be able to put buttons ontop of this content that have events and actions that control the url they are ontop of....

Ideas??

[PhilB]

I suppose you could just pop an overlay with the buttons on it. Use a transparent background for the overlay and this should work fine.

PB

[smarty]

I believe I tried what you said....

I made a screen with control buttons on it. I set the screen background to "none". This would then become my overlay screen.

From my web browsing screen, I made a button that ran the event "show overlay new layer".

Results:
However, the area where my web broswer was is now just white (the web content does not show through the newly opened layer).

Is there another way to do this?

[wesblack]

It is not possible to overlay any graphics or buttons on a webbrowser element and see them work outside of the skin editor.





Wes Black \ Calrad

[lar282]

I never got it to work properly either. Some webpages steals focus and XL looses the focus. If one only have a remote it just doesn't work
Steven fixed it so it worked alittle better a few months back, but still not ggod.

//Lasse

[smarty]

It is not possible to overlay any graphics or buttons on a webbrowser element and see them work outside of the skin editor.





Wes Black \ Calrad

....OK..I did know what I was doing...but it just doesn't work.

$10,000 dollar questions is..... Is there plans for a fix? I did report it in Mantis....

[S Pittaway]

the way i got round it was to use an overlay like someone said....

but i had a plugin take a screenshot of xlobby BEFORE the overlay is shown, then i show the "snapshot" as a faded overlay background.

a bit hacky, but it does work.

[smarty]

That is a unique idea......but no luck for the application I have in mind.

In my case, the controls are for moving around on the page (and, the page is displaying "live content" like my security cams).

Hopefully the a "web overlay" can be eventually added in the future.