FLASH: Newby Q: Flash 3-- Transparency & file formats

[Jim Butler]

I recently purchased Flash 3 to use as a work-around to the limitations

of animated gifs. Unfortunately I cannot figure out how to make my flash

movies transparent. Or the proper format to save the movies in.


1. I have created the animation setting the alpha to 100% of the color

that I want to be transparent.

2. Then I export the movie as a shockwave file.

3. When I put the movie into a web page it is not transparent.


I have two questions.


First, is there such a thing as a flash movie that works in html? If I

do a simple save, it saves as a flash movie., but I cannot get this to

work in a browser. Is the "flash movie" file an actual format that works

in html or is it just the way to save the file and then you export it to

shockwave for the actual movie.


Second, whether the actual finished product is a "flash" movie or

shockwave movie how can I get it to have a transparent background to

work like an animated gif?


I know these are pretty basic and simple questions, but I have read

through the whole book and cannot figure this out. Also, can someone

recommend a good book on Flash that better explains how the program

works.


Thanks,


--

Jim Butler

Scuba Web Design

email:

jbutler3san [dot] rr [dot] com (mailto:jbutler3san [dot] rr [dot] com)

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