FLASH: 0% alpha =/= transparent?

[uo||!p]

Hi all -


I'm a flash newbie and I hope these questions don't sound too stupid to you:


I'm having trouble making my symbols completely transparent in flash 4. Even

though I set the alpha values to 0%, i can still see the symbol - why is it

like that?


I was also trying to make a symbol with a gradient fill which has some

tranparent colors in it and other areas matching the background color of the

movie, but when i use that symbol, not only that the supposedly matching

background colors don't match, i always see some faint grids in the

transparent areas.... does any of you have any insight to this?


In addition, why can i never set the movie's background to exactly match

that of the html document, even when they have the same Hex color code? It

seems to me that the background color of flash is always a tiny bit lighter

than the html documents....


Thanks a lot in advance!



dillon / uo||!p





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