Flash :: Background Transparency Between Browsers

Do Some Browsers Not Support Flash Transparency?
I've got an image which I'll be using on the background of my site.
On top of that image, I have a swf that goes from opaque to transparent.

I've heard that some browsers don't support swf transparency. Is it true? I'm worried if the swf won't become transparent to reveal the image in the background.

Transparency Problem In Linux Browsers
Hi,
I did the flash portion of my site in Flash 8 Pro and I set the transparency properties for the movie in my Html editor (Dreamweaver MX). Thus the background of the movie is transparent and one should see a CSS gradient background image set up in DW mx.

All this works when browsing on Windows, either with Firefox or IE. But when I browse on a Linux operating system, the transparency is gone and I get a solid gray stage/background which should not be there.

Is there any code or actionscript that needs to be done to correct this problem in Linux? I appreciate any help on this matter.

Many Thanks, Frank B.

Here's the site Frank Bright Website

Background Transparency
hello every one!

I have an urgent question, do any one know how to make the background of an animation transparent? like a simple gif?

I know how to do it for IE but it does'nt work under NS.

any one have the solution for NetScape?

Help With Background Transparency
I am trying to figure out how to make the background transparent. This would allow me to float graphics down over a html coded background file letting the background design show while floating the graphic down over it.

Background Transparency
What is the BEST way to set a movies background to transparent. I know <PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent> but it makes the movie slow. any ideas??

Thanks
Have Fun!!

Background Transparency
How can i make a background transparent?

Background Transparency
Is there a way to set Flash background to transparent?

FListBox Background Transparency
I'm trying to find a technique to make the background of my fListBoxes transparent. Any help would be most appreciated.

Document Background Transparency
Is there a way to make the background of a Flash Document have total transparency? I'm currently making a navigation for may website. It has an odd shape and isn't the perfect square that all documents are. When I put the navigation up on my website I don't want to see the white background all around the navigation bar. Is there anyway to get rid of the white so that I can just see the website's background? Or is there anyway to make a flash document fit right around the navigation? I just want to see the navigation, nothing more, nothing less. Can anyone help?

GIF Background Transparency In Flash CS3
I am attempting to publish a gif image created by Flash CS3 with a transparent background. In the Publish Settings for a .gif file, I enable the transparency setting to "transparent" which is supposed to make the background of the published gif file transparent.

Unfortunately, I cannot seem to create a gif file with its background transparent using the above method (which is the way the help file tells you to do it)-- it is always opaque, no matter which color is chosen for the fla background. Is this some kind of bug with Flash?

Background Transparency Troubles In IE
Hi guys,

I have to create this Flash with a transparent background. This works fine in most browsers except in IE. The thing is, I have to listen to a Stage resize, to resize stuff according to Stage size, so I have to following code on the first frame:

ActionScript Code:
this.onResize = function()
{
//-- Replace stuff...
};

Stage.addListener(this);
When using this in IE the Flash gets sized to zero size (that's just a guess because it's not visible on screen).

Any thoughts?

Change Background Transparency
When a user clicks on a button, I would like the flash web page (background) to go transparent to an alpha of about 50%? Any ideas? thanks,
- Gabe

How To Set The BACKGROUND Transparency Of A Textfield.
i have a actionscript 3.0 class TextArea which extends Sprite.
it includes a TextField within it.

in my site, i have used this object over an image.
now my requirement is that i need to make the background of textarea semi-transparent so that text could be read easily, and image is visible a bit.
setting the alpha property makes text transparent too.

pls somebody help me.

Text Transparency With Solid Background
hi,

i'm trying to create a menu setup where the menu option "inverts" on a mouseover.

i have a picture as backdrop, and white textual menu options. The text has no background or border, so the options are just white text floating over the background.

i'm trying to make it so that when you hover over an item, it changes to a white text background, and the text becomes transparent, so that suddenly the background becomes visible through the text.

does anyone know if this is possible? If not, i'll have to go with black text on a white background for the mouseover. one thing that strikes me is: are negative masks possible? could i make the text a mask so that it appears to cut a transparent hole in a white box?

any help would be appreciated,
c

Alpha Transparency On Text Background
Hi,

I'm fairly new to ActionScript, and am trying to apply Alpha to a text background in Actionscript.

I have a dynamic text field, which I can change the background colour (i'm English ) of by setting background to true, and applying a value to backgroundColor. However, I can't seem to find a way to apply Alpha.

I know there is a Color.setTransform function, but that doesn't seem to do anything. I've tried the following:

MainCaption.TopLine.backgroundColor = 0xff0000;
MainCaption.TopLine.backgroundColor.setTransform({ aa:'70'});

But no Alpha! Can anyone help!?

Background Color Of Swf File/transparency
Hi all. I have a FLASH file (MX) where the BG color is 777777. It shows up this way, yet when I export it to SWF format and into an HTML page, it comes in white. Is there some simple box I should be checking so that it shows the true/intended BG color or do I need to make it "transparent" and if so, how do I do that? Thanks in advance.....)

Scott (scott scot)

How To Make Transparency Background In Flash MX.?
Hi,
I would like to make transparency background in Flash, I am using Flash MX.
I make pulldown menu with Flash, and would like to insert in header ..but the "white background" is still visible and cover the other menu in my header.., How do you get rid of the white area..??
How you guys do it.., please..help...

Tree Background Transparency With Lee's Tutorial
I've created a tree via the tutorial I found on this site that Lee put up as a video. I'm trying to incorporate that UI with a transparent background so only the folders and links are visible in the list.

I've seen others paste code that deals with the transparent background however I'm not entirely sure how to incorporate that into the way Lee showed the method in the XML tutorial on this site.

Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks!

Dennis

Problem With Transparency Over Changing Background Colour
Please, please help. I'm new to flash and have created my first movie with mx which i'm pleased with apart from one sequence where i have a movie clip of leaves falling over a changing background ( a rectangle created and filled in flash with colour and tweened so it fades in and out of different colours). I've edited the leaf png in the movie clip till kingdom come, it has transparency when i view it in fireworks mx, but when viewed in the whole movie preview the leaf has a light brown rectangle around it. It is something to do with the tweening background colour that is not fully supported by the transparency, are there only a limited no. of colours that will be transparent behind the leaf?

please, please help its driving me crazy.

Cheers
simon w

Transparency Background In Flash Working Panel
Anyone knows how to set transparency background in document window. Not that setting in flash publishing in the window mode. It is like transparency for color which is shown as grid but it is set to be in the background in the document. I want to know how to set it.

Wmode Transparency Showing Black Boxes As Background
Well this is very weird...
I have a main SWF embed on the html with swfobject and the wmode set to transparent on an absolut position.

HTML Code:
#myBKG{
height: 100%;
position:absolute;
left:0;
top:0;
z-index:1;
}
Then over myBKG, i have another swf that is a custom shape with some buttons embeded also on the html and with this CSS

HTML Code:
#footer {
border: none;
height:120px;
width:100%;
z-index:3;
}
the position of the footer is ok and it looks nice over the 'myBKG', until I place the mouse over the 'footer's buttons'.
The problem is that it starts showing black-boxes on the transparent area (like the red rectangle displayed when you select 'show redraw regions' on the ide player).
Is there any way to solve this? or the best solution would be to rethink the design?

Having Difficulties Trying To Change White Background Of Flash Menu Into Transparent Background
How would I best go about changing a Flash menu that currently has a white background into a Flash menu with a transparent background?

I want to take that menu (with a transparent background) and place it over a side-bar image that i've got in DW.

Any help/advice'd be greatly appreciated.

[F8] List Component - Transparent Background? Or A Custom Bitmap Background?
I have a custom bitmap I'd like to use as the background for my List Component in Flash 8 Pro.

I can't for the life of me find any documentation on how to make the list component background transparent or how to put a bitmap in the background of it.

Can anyone help with this? Please!

FOO

Different Browsers
help needed!

Does enyone know someting about using flash in diffrernt browsers. I made a menu that works well in explorer but not at all in netscape 4.7 Can anyone write me some lines about this?

Thans a bunch for helping!

/marcus

New Browsers?
hey peeps...

just wondering if you can help me with another one of my problems...

i've got my site, (thats a full flash site apart from the index page), that i'm updating at the mo, and the index page which loads has the usual flash check button, and site requirements, etc, and also the continue button if you've got flash already...right? Well, my question is...

...when someone clicks on the continue button to actually enter my site, how can i make it so that my sites opening flash movie opens up in a window that is the same size as the movie size i've created...?

I check out all these cool sites on these boards, and some sites when you click 'continue' open up into small windows, rather than opening up a new browser to fill the screen, (kinda like a pop up window)...you know what i mean???

hope you can help!!!

Browsers?
I created a banner for a client without taking into consideration compadability. It's a 6k swf file that will be embedded into a html page of course.

Do most of the browsers today have the ability to open swf's like IE?

I don't want to convert this thing to a GIF...

Let me know.

Different Browsers
My webpage (created in flash mx 2004) looks correct in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari, but in Netscape some of the images are cut off (even if they're in the middle of the page) and items that are moved to the side off of the stage show up.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem and have the movie/webpage work consistently in all browsers?
Thanks!

How To Make The Background Transparent And/or Change The Shape Of The Background
Im just curious how to change the shape of the background or the transparency.

Please let me know

Transparent Background/ XML Code To Change The Background Colour
Hi,

In a bit of a pickle here; I need a way to insert a swf file into any color background website, so it automatically matches up.

Now, can one make the swf files background transparent? And match the background of any given websites background?

Or, can one use some sort of XML file and simply change this xml file to match the background color of the website?

Now, what if the website uses a particulare pic background? How would one match this?

As usual folks, I am stuck between a rock and a hard place, so any help deeply apprecaiteed!

Kind Regards,

Boxing Boom

FSCommand Ok For Most OS & Browsers?
I'd like to take advantage of communicating between
my movies & javascript via fscommand but not unless it
works in at least 90% of the what users have out there. I seem to remember hearing it does not work on Apple? If it works on IE/Netscape 4.0 and above and both Apple/Windows then I should be reaching most of the audience. Just wanted to be sure before I commit to using it and has anyone
experienced problems on platforms that it should have worked on?
Thanks!!

Different Colors In Different Browsers
My flash shows up the correct color in IE but in netscape it is white. check out http://www.sundanceresort.com/newsite/test
the fla is available at http://www.sundanceresort.com/newsit...h/netscape.fla

Flash 6 And Browsers
Does anyone no an estimate of what percent of people have flash 6 player or a place to go to read about it?
Thanks,
Nina

Optimizing In Different Browsers
Hi i'm about to launch a new website in html (unfortunately), but I need to optimize it in lots of different versions of explore and netscape. How do you do that best? Any good solutions?

Thomas
Denmark

Browsers And Flash
Hi there

I'm at college learning how to use Flash. I was wondering something. I've noticed that you can drag and drop SWF files into a browser (I'ver tried this in netscape 7 and IE5.5) and it displays the whole movie, full screen.

My question is does this work on all browsers and if not which ones does it work with and what versions?

Any help would be greatly apperviated.

All the best

Steve

Fullscreen In Browsers
I'm need help for creating an swf that goes full screen in a web browser like those when u use fscommand("fullscreen", "true"); for a projector...
any tip will be useful and greatly appreciated...

btw I use dreamweaver to link the swf in to the html...

thanks once again =)

Need People To See This Through Different Browsers Please
Hi all,

I just finished this page not too long ago, but I just saw it throught netscape as oposed to ie (for which I made it) and it looks all messed up. Can somebody look at it with other browsers such as aol, and tell me if it's messed up too.

the pages are supposed to load in the middle through an iframe, but in netscape is popping a new page everytime a button is clicked.

what do you see?
thanks

www.angelaalen.com

Mac Browsers Cant See Swf File
hi,

i am testing my site and all pc users can see it fine. i only have one mac user testing with the following config:

osx 10.3.3
safari 1.2.1
explorer 5.2
flash Version: is 7,0,19,0

the mac browsers load the html page (the background colour is displayed) but not the swf. the publish settings are set to flash player 6, actionscript 2, no compression. the mac user can view the file as a mac projector file. i have also tried an absolute path to the swf in the html file. i am using flash mx 2004 on a pc to author the file. there is no loadMovie or fscommand syntax in the actionscript.

i would be grateful for feedback from any mac users who can / cant view it. url is www.lukem.co.uk

any ideas what the problem could be?

thanks,

luke.

Scaling In All Browsers Same
How should I handle script in flash or exported html do scale movie, everytime loaded to browser window, the same and without boarders (I mean just the stage).(any browser [Mozilla, Opera])
Thanx for reply. Only think to handle to launch my site

Ban Crappy Browsers? : D
Can I detect different browsers in flash, and possibly redirect the ones I dislike to a "go away page" ?

Resize Browsers
I have created a site in 800x600 but want the site to resize when someone comes on with a higher resolution automatically. Does anyone have any code that i can use?

Diference In Browsers
Hi, check this out!!!
If you load this site with IExplorer it looks fine a swf with a red frame aroundit, wich is in the .html. Thats good!
now, if you use any other browser it shows the grid I used in front page to center the swf, and in white! That's bad!

http://www.euzkadi1.monicascoffee.com/intro.html

How can I make it look like in the Explorer in the rest of the browsers?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Problem With Web Browsers
hi,

I created a website www.broadwaythelyricist.com and since i use firefox i thought everything was fine. Little did i know that internet explorer has problems running the site, it gets stuck on the preloader and then. when you do get into the site by refresing the page the imported dynamic text on the news and on the bio sections do not load up.

Firefox runs the site perfectly. everything loads properly and the text gets loaded into the site with no problems.

Why isnt the site working on internet explorer. Would someone please help me.

thanx in advanced.

-skyracer-
www.skyteckstudio.com

Flash MX And Different Browsers
Is there anything I need to know about implementing Flash into my website in regards to different browsers? Do some browsers not like actionscript or something along those lines? I just wanted to know before I really get rolling on adding a bunch of Flash to my site.

Thanks for the help!

XML Crashing All MAC Browsers
I have made an attempt to make an online store with flash. the minute you enter the section that the flash is trying to communicate with XML and sends and receives data all MAC browsers crash (IE, Safari and even Firefox). On pc when I get to that part a little window pops up, the window's title is: Macromedia Flash Player Setting and it says: " nimany.com is attempting to read from www.nimany.com. This is a potentially insecure operation. Do you want to allow it?" and once i hit allow everything is OK only on PC.

Since mac doesn't show this alert, instead it just crashes!!!! any idea? why

this is the link: http://nimany.com/nima.php

Is Anyone Else Having Trouble With Web Browsers?
Hi guys, I am desperate for some help any advice much appreciated! I would be
interested to hear if anyone else has had this problem and how they solved it?
I am working in MX pro 2004 and Learning Action Script and behaviours and have
created a moving character based on these bits of code.

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
_root.sprite._x += 10;
}
(and so on for the up, right and left)

onClipEvent (keyDown) {
if (Key.getCode() == Key.DOWN) {
_root.sprite.gotoAndStop(1);
_root.sprite.down.play();
}
(and so on for the up, right and left)

onClipEvent (keyUp) {
if (Key.getCode() == Key.DOWN) {
_root.sprite.down.stop();
}

Now when I publish it and view it through a browser the character "locks" she doesn't
move properly or play the correct walking animations for each key press until I click
on her! Runs fine as far as I can see when I test the movie or play it through the flash
player, but really wanted it to be eventually uploaded onto the web.

Thanks in advance

NO Text In Certain Browsers
http://www.pandadrinks.com

The text by the panda paws on the menu and the mail page does not show in all browsers

Not showing in
most linux browsers and
opera

Does any one know why ?

Thanks

[F8] Browsers And Framerate
I have a love .swf with two pieces of imported music. Frames-per-second is set to 36 and built it to time out nearly perfectly - when the .swf is viewed alone. In publish preview or just clicking the file on a desktop, it's perfect. But as soon as the player is in an html page and viewed through a browser, either firefox or IE, the fps slows (I assume) and the music finishes much sooner than the animation.

This is not being downloaded, it's still viewing a local file straight from the desktop.

So question time:
Do the browsers impose a different fps or do they just slow the player down or what?

If there is no way around that, is there a way to guesstimate the true fps or is the timeline now pretty much useless?

Resizing For Different Browsers
Hi,

I recently put this website up on the internet;

http://electrode.org.uk/

but unfortunately have discovered it looks a bit wrong on some computers (mostly PCs, I made it on a mac). It seems some monitors don't have a high enough resolution (I think?) to view the whole thing, and so the viewer must scroll down to see everything.

If I change the html publish settings to scale "exact fit" in flash, will this solve the problem, and would I only need to do this for the parent swf, or for all externally loaded swfs as well.

Many thanks,

Background Transparency Between Browsers

I'm doing an interactive menu and have set the background to 'transparent' - this works fine with IE, but not, it seems, with Opera or Firefox which display the default white background.