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flash transparency on mac

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the full wonty

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Apr 4, 2006
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Hi there,

I've created a website with flash dropdown menu's. The background of the flash movies need to be transparent but on mac they're not. Is there anyone who can tell me how to make them transparent

thx
 
I'm not sure how your loading this, but I believe all your looking for is the wmode="transparent" setting. Your embedding code should look something like this:

<object classid="clsid: D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="w" height="h">
<param name="movie" value="yourswf.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
<embed src="yourswf.swf" quality="high" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="x" height="h">
</embed>
</object>
 
That's not working on my Windoze machine either.

Is that background color part of an image or the background of the flash document. In order for the transparent wmode to work you need to not have any solid art over the "stage".

If I understand what you want to accomplish, and I have correctly identified the problem, I would probably reccomend you set that link art as native flash/vector objects rather than as images. It would end up quite a bit cleaner as well.
 
PC/Firefox ... doesn't work.

Don't use images; create the text and drop shadow in flash (easy if you're in Flash 8 Pro) not Photoshop.

You're symbol roll-overs are breaking as well. You're getting closer.


peace | neut
 
okay guys, thx for the tips i will try and see. Strange that you say it isn't working on pc/firefox cause i don't have this problem, at least the homepage should be okay, the other pages i still have to change...
 
the full wonty said:
okay guys, thx for the tips i will try and see. Strange that you say it isn't working on pc/firefox cause i don't have this problem, at least the homepage should be okay, the other pages i still have to change...
Click to expand...

Ahh, now i see what you mean ... the white box. Yeah, the first page is working. I thought the that special sauce color was supposed to be screened as well. So, it is working in Firefox (PC) ... at least the flash part.


peace | neut
 
Oh I didn't go deep enough either I guess.

There is no wmode parameter in the <embed> tags on the deeper pages, only in the object tag.

See my first post above.

edit---

Just to be clear here, on the first page your object and embed tags look like this

<object classid="clsid: D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="120" height="100">
<param name="movie" value="superadobe.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
<embed src="superadobe.swf" width="120" height="100" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"></embed></object>

and on the deeper pages that <embed> tag is missing the wmode="transparent".
 
okay, i've worked without the gif's , can anyone check the homepage for me now? I'm waiting to change the other pages untill the homepage is okay. i'm working with the mx version so the shadowdrops will be out i guess...

www.asasedimuecovillage.org
 
Hey, that works (Safari/Mac); I like it better without the drop shadows. :)

The symbol rollovers do not work (if they're supposed to).

Lookin' good. :cool:


peace | neut
 
this is the best news i could get, it were the gif's indeed, thx for the cooperation, i've been trough 25 forums and no one could help me thx guys
 
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