Re: transparent flash movie

[M. Korevaar]

Hi,

I followed the link

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

but saw nothing just a white screen.

I use Netscape Comm 4

Martin Korevaar


Raven Victoria Erebus wrote:


> 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