transparent flash movie

[Marko Z]

hi there all.


i'm working on a project where I'd like to be able to take advantage of

the transparent flash movie within dhtml in IE4 on a PC with the

"special" active x control.  i've looked in every obvious place on the

web and found the correct code (wmode) and an explanation of how great

the feature is (dhtmlzone.com) but nowhere does anyone say how it works

within flash.


what i want to know is how the browser selects a transparent color from

the .swf file, or more importantly, do all i have to is select a solid

color background from my modify movie menu, and IE4'll take care of the

rest, is it based on the first pixel like gif animation?


anyone who has experience doing this, or anyone at macromedia who might

know, i would just like to know what's going to happen before I send the

file to my programmer so I can be sure that i've done my part.


thanks a ton for any info out there.


marko z muellner