I have used the wmode opaque setting as suggested in
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/155/tn_15523.html so that colorbox stays in
the background.

I used swf object from http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/ so the html
validates.

When I try to run ( examples 2,3,4 ) colorbox on top of a flash
slideshow it doesn't work unless the slideshow is not moving.
(autoplay=false)

Is there anyway of telling a flash slideshow to stop or to totally
disable it while colorbox is on top.

I am currently trying to upgrade from http://www.dolem.com/lytebox
which seems to totally hide the flash in the background.....

Can anyone help?

There's no pre-made option for that, but it should be easy to accomplish
using ColorBox's events.  Hide your flash when 'cbox_open' is triggered, and
reveal it when 'cbox_closed' is triggered.

Thanks for your quick reply.

Unfortunately I'm not a programmer (but have slightly edited others
code) so I'm not sure where to start....

...but as I think i'd need to know more about it to get the results I
want, this seems as good a place as any to start....

I do wonder if colorbox can send paramaters to SWF Object, as that
seems to be the idea of the latter as well...

I don't know enough able flash to be able to answer that.  If you can
interact with it via JavaScript, then just put whatever JS you need to use
as the callback for colorbox.

The JS I was describing earlier would look like this:

$().bind('cbox_open', function(){
    $('object, embed').css({'visibility':'hidden'});

    $('object, embed').css({'visibility':'inherit'});

It just changes the CSS for flash objects based on the events that ColorBox
triggers.

Works perfectly.... thanks!