Transparent Background

Please Quickly i need to know the answer

[ghrrromy]

Does anyone know how to make the background of a flash document transparent? i am not finding the answer... or at least do u know where i can look?

[damir mestrovic]

I think you can't.
But maybe if you make PNG sequence, and then use background as transparency layer in AfterEfects or some other program.
I never tried it. If you do it successfully, please, share your info.

[vsgill]

Yes this is posible and widely used...
u can do this by adding a parameter called WMODE to the flash object in you html
add this line with the other flash object parameters...

<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
and also

wmode="transparent"

to the embed tag.

the flash object should look something like this... in your html page...

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="550" height="400" id="new" align="middle">
 <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
 <param name="movie" value="new.swf" />
 <param name="quality" value="high" />
 <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
 <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
 <embed src="new.swf" quality="high" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="550" height="400" name="new" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>

if u r using dreamweaver u can do this by selecting the flash object and by clicking thr parameter button in the property pannel.... and then adding a paramer called

WMODE

with the value

transparent

this should work...
cheers
Vik

[vsgill]

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[Geoffrey james]

hey vsgill,

thank you, thank you, thank you!

I loaded a flash slideshow onto my home page a few days ago and have tried everything to get my nav sub menu boxs which are supposed to appear on top of the slideshow to be visible.

Had posted here a few questions below but no reply. And posted in 2 other web forums (this being the best of course).

I saw this question and although i wasnt sure what the persons problem was for them to need transparency, I thought id try it.

Thanks v much, and to ghrromy for posting question.

Geoff