Re: transparent flash movie

[Raven Victoria Erebus]

Marko Z wrote:

> 

> 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.


the background will be transparent, you don't need to do anything

special with it.



you can look at my silly example:


http://www.trollop.com/people/raven/flash/butterfly.html

http://www.trollop.com/people/raven/flash/butterfly.swf


if you look click on the swf by itself you'll see that the movie has a

normal background, while in the html it is transparent.


ra