Re: FLASH: is this possible or is it wish list?

[Charles Goran]

Love your "crazy monkey idea"!


Perhaps a global/ movie level alpha channel?


Cheers,

Charles


Rachel Bachman wrote:


> If I could have anything in the world right now,

> it would be this...

>

> I want to be able to define the outside perimeter

> of a flash file so that I can create an .swf with a

> unique shape. I want to do this so that I can create

> a remote control object that "floats" on the user's

> desktop. For example, I want to say to Flash,

> "Hey, use this circle as the shape of the file you

> will output." Then, I could have a link from an HTML

> page that would pull up circle.swf. This circle.swf

> could be moved around on the screen.

>

> I know this is a crazy monkey idea but would that

> not be cool?

>

> I was thinking that perhaps there was a way to

> do it with dhtml. My initial questioning of our

> dhtml experts tells me that it probably won't work

> like that.

>

> I know I could place an .swf file in a popup window

> but i dont' want to see the browser at all so that is

> not a solution for me.

>

> I know I could create the site entirely in Flash and

> do it that way but I believe I will not have the option

> of building the entire site in Flash.

>

> Anybody have any thoughts about how one could

> accomplish something like that? And yes, ideally

> it would be a multi-platform solution.

>

> Thanks,

> rachel

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