FLASH: Re: flasher-digest V1 #3033

[Bill-Fox]

Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 13:54:04 +0100 (BST)

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Chris=20Stowell?= <

chris_stowellyahoo [dot] co [dot] uk

>

Subject: FLASH: Transparent backgrounds in .swf file


Hi


Am I missing something, or is it impossible to have a flash file with a

transparent background?


I'd like to have some animated text in an HTML layer, preferably with a

background with 25% alpha, but full transparency is fine too, or an embedded

flash button over a backgound image in and HTML table.


I've tried using a background colour in the movie that has 25% alpha, but

when

I publish it as an HTML page in Flash 4 I loose the transparency.


Any ideas or am I stuck with doing the whole page in Flash?


Thanks


Chris


____________________________________________________________

Chris

You must create an HTML document that activates the movie and specifies

browser settings. You can use Publish to generate the required HTML document

automatically.


Window Mode (Windows only) Sets the WMODE parameter of the OBJECT tag, which

lets you take advantage of the transparent movie, absolute positioning, and

layering capabilities available in Internet Explorer 4.0. This option works

only in the Windows version of Internet Explorer with the Flash Active X

control.


 Window sets the WMODE parameter value to WINDOW and plays a Flash Player

movie in its own rectangular window on a web page. This setting normally

provides the fastest animation performance.

 Opaque Windowless sets the WMODE parameter value to OPAQUE. Use this

setting if you want to move elements behind Flash movies (for example, with

dynamic HTML) and don't want them to show through.

 Transparent Windowless sets the WMODE parameter to TRANSPARENT. Use this

setting to make the background of the HTML page on which the movie is

embedded show through all the transparent potions of the movie. Animation

performance might be slower when you use this setting.

Bill Fox



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