Re: transparent flash movie

[Eliran]

Hi Martin,


You should know that transparent movies work only with IE4 - it doesn't work

with netscape.



Eliran Milo



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From: M. Korevaar <

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Date: ��� ����� 18 ������ 1998 14:34

Subject: Re: transparent flash movie



>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

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>Raven Victoria Erebus wrote:

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>> Marko Z wrote:

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>> > 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:

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

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

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>> 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

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