Re: transparent flash movie

[John Croteau]

Hi everyone,


Even after jd's clear explanation some people are still blocked on

transparent backgrounds in Flash2.


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

This is a test page meant for IE4 Win95/NT only and all the graphics are

Flash and use the <OBJECT tags only and there are no <EMBED tags, gifs

or anything else that will show up in Netscape thus a blank white screen

is normal for Netscape. In IE3 Win95/NT you will see the graphics but

they they will not overlap and show off the transparent background and

layering.


The area that is made transparent by the WMODE="transparent" parameter

is the area where there is NO drawn graphics. There is no setting as to

what color is transparent because it is set by the absence of objects in

Flash that determines where Flash2 is transparent. If you place any 

bitmap, object, text or symbol on the canvas in Flash that area is no

longer going to be capable of being transparent in Flash2, and then only

in MSIE4 in Win95/NT with the WMODE set to transparent. MM has not

released a plug-in that will support transparent backgrounds and

layering and when they do it will work only in Netscape 4 or later

browsers.


To see what will be transparent goto Modify > Movie  and change the

color in Background. Only the areas where you see the color change of

the background, are the ones that can be transparent in IE4 Win95/NT. If

you don't see the new background color anywhere, then you have covered

up the background and you will get NO transparent background and there

is no color setting to change that. You must remove objects where you

want it to be transparent.


 

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John Croteau

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